Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change. Malcolm X

• anger
• sadness

Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth. Chuck Norris

• anger

When anger rises, think of the consequences. Confucius

• anger

We must not let the actions or words of others determine our responses. Magnanimous people make the choice to respond to the indignities of others based upon their own principles and their own value system rather than their moods or anger. Stephen Covey

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• anger

Anyone can become angry. That is easy. But to become angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not easy. Aristotle

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Hot heads and cold hearts never solved anything. Billy Graham

• anger

The way to change others' minds is with affection, and not anger. Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso

• anger

When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred. Thomas Jefferson

• anger

To be happy you must forget yourself. Learn benevolence; it is the only cure of a morbid temper. Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

• happiness
• anger

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity. George Eliot

• regret
• anger

If religion does nothing for your temper, it has done nothing for your soul. Robert Clayton

• religion
• anger

When force of circumstance upsets your equanimity, lose no time in recovering your self-control, and do not remain out of tune longer than you can help. Habitual recurrence to the harmony will increase your mastery of it. Marcus Aurelius

• anger
• self control

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Anger helps straighten out a problem like a fan helps straighten out a pile of papers. Susan Marcotte

• anger

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves. Alexander Pope

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How much more damage anger and grief do than the things that cause them. Marcus Aurelius

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There's nothing manly about rage. It's courtesy and kindness that define a human being - and a man. That's who possesses strength and nerves and guts, not the angry whiners. Marcus Aurelius

• guts
• anger

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The only way to go through your life without pissing anyone off is to do great harm to your own freedom and to never get to what's best for you. John T. Reed

• anger
• tact
• manners

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It's easy to assume that vivid emotions spring from the truth. I'm not so sure. They often come from fear and confusion and well-told stories. Seth Godin

• anger
• emotion

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Remember that when you're in the right you can afford to keep your temper, and that when you're in the wrong you can't afford to lose it. George Horace Lorimer

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Those who are only or merely compassionate and self-sacrificing (and naïve and exploitable) cannot call forth the genuinely righteous and appropriately self-protective anger necessary to defend themselves. If you can bite, you generally don't have to. When skillfully integrated, the ability to respond with aggression and violence decreases rather than increases the probability that actual aggression will become necessary. Jordan Peterson

• violence
• anger