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Jai Ganesh

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Anger Quotes

Anger Quotes

1. Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. - Buddha

2. Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured. - Mark Twain

3. Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy. - Aristotle

4. When anger rises, think of the consequences. - Confucius

5. Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. - Benjamin Franklin

6. When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred. - Thomas Jefferson

7. People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining. - Stephen Hawking

8. For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

9. There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot. - Plato

10. Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding. - Mahatma Gandhi

11. Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance. - Pythagoras

12. Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools. - Albert Einstein

13. One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end. - William Butler Yeats

14. He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin. - John Ruskin

15. Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts. - Ovid

16. Too much self-centered attitude, you see, brings, you see, isolation. Result: loneliness, fear, anger. The extreme self-centered attitude is the source of suffering. - Dalai Lama

17. Anger begets more anger, and forgiveness and love lead to more forgiveness and love. - Mahavira

18.When you assume negative intent, you're angry. If you take away that anger and assume positive intent, you will be amazed. Your emotional quotient goes up because you are no longer almost random in your response. - Indra Nooyi

19. Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don't go away, they just echo around. - Jane Goodall

20. Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up. - Mahatma Gandhi

21. It is good to forget one's anger against one's wrongdoer, whoever he may be, for countless number of evils will quickly grow from this anger. - Thiruvalluvar

22. Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods. - Confucius

23. Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something's wrong. He's not right in the brain. - Dalai Lama

24. We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop. - Mahatma Gandhi

25. An angry people cannot create anything that is not imbued with anger. - John McAfee.

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