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SELF CONTROL, ANGER, JUDGEMENT, TIMING,

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, Nicomachean Ethics



SELF CONTROL, ANGER, PASSION, EMOTION, STRENGTH,

"He conquers twice who conquers himself in victory."

Syrus



LEADERSHIP, MANAGMENT, DIRECTION

When the sheperd is angry with his sheep he sends them a blind
guide.

Hebrew Proverb, Ray



ANGER, PATIENCE, DELAY,

When angry, count four, when very angry, swear.

Mark Twain



ANGER

Anger raises invention, but it overheats the oven.

Lord Halifax



ANGER

A man said to the prophet, "Give me a command." He said, "Do not
get angry." The man repeated the question several times, and he
said, "Do not get angry."

Sayings of Mohammed



ANGER, INSPIRATION,  EMOTION, ALERTNESS, ANNOYANCE

I never work better than when I am inspired by anger; when I am
angry, I can write pray, and preach well, for then my whole
temperament is quickened, my understanding is sharpened, and all
mundane vexations and temptations depart.

Martin Luther



ANGER

Beware the fury of a patient man.

Dryden, Absolam & Achitophel, 1680





INSULTS, AFFRONTS, IMPULSE, ANGER, YOUTH, OLD-AGE

"Young men soon give, and soon forget affronts;

Old age is slow in both."

Addison, CATO, Act 2,5 benham



GHABIT, ANGER, PATTERNS, EMOTION

"Plutarch says very finely, that a man should not allow himself
to hate even his enemies; because if you indulge this passion on
some occasions, it will rise of itself in others."

Addison



PASSIONS, ANGER,

"Let them extinguish their passions which embitter their lives,
and deprive them of their share in the happiness of the
community.

Addison



MEANNESS, SELF CONTROL,

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

Bacon, Apophthegms



ANGER, FACE, INSIGHT, DENIAL

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato



CHARACTER, PERSPECTIVE, ANGER, MIND, ATTITUDE

"People of gloomy, uncheerful imaginations, or of envious,
malignant tempers, whatever kind of life they are engaged in,
will discover their natural tincture of mind in all their
thoughts,,,, words and actions. As the finest wines have often
the taste of the soil, so even the most religious thoughts often
draw something that is particular from the constitution of the
mind in which they arise."

Colton



ANGER, CONSEQUENCES

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius



ANGER, IMPULSE, PASSION

"O how the passions, insolent and strong,  Bear our weak minds
their rapid course along,  Make us the madness of their will
obey, Then die and leave us to our grief a prey."

Crabbe, George



ANGER, LOSS, SELF CONTROL

"You, too weak the slightest loss to bear,

Are on the fret of PASSION, boil, RAGE."

Creech, Thomas



LAUGHTER, PRACTICE, SADNESS, DEPRESSION, JOY, ANGER, SCREAMING

As practice is requisite with the ordinary movements of the
body, such as walking, so it seems to be with laughing and
weeping. The art of screaming, on the other hand, from being of
service to infants, has become finely developed from the
earliest days.

Charles Darwin, Expression of The Emotions In Man And Animals



ANGER, SINE-WAVE

"Whatsoever is worthy of their Love is worth their anger."

Denham, Sir J.



"Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools."

        Albert Einstein 1879-1955



PATIENCE, ANGER, TOLERANCE

"If anyone will take these two words to heart and use them for
his own guidance and regulation, he will be almost without sin
and will lead a very peaceful life. These two words are bear and
forbear."    Epictetus



ANGER, HABIT, CHANGE,

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present
evil, but that you have increased a habit.

Epictetus



HATE, ANGER, EXCESS,

Hating people is like burning your house down to get rid of a
rat.

Harry Emerson Fosdick



SELF-CONTROL, PASSION, ANGER

Every man has a wild beast within him; a few can keep it in
subjection, but the majority let it loose whenever they are not
restrained by the laws.

Frederick The Great letter to Voltaire 1760





TEMPER, JUDGEMENT, INTELLIGENCE,

"There is no greater impediment to the reasoning powers and the
speech of man, than ANGER."

Gelli



FROWN, CORRUGATOR, FURROW, FACE, ANGER

"Though tempers are bad, and peevish folks swear,

Remember to ruffle thy brows, friend, ne'er.

Goethe, THE WAY TO BEHAVE, 1815



ADDICTION, SENSATION, SHALLOW, DEPENDENCE

"None has more frequent conversations with disagreeable self
than the man of pleasure; his enthusiasms are but few and
transient; his appetites, like angry creditors, continually
making fruitless demands for what he is unable to pay; and the
greater his former pleasures, the more strong his regret, the
more impatient his expectations."

Oliver Goldsmith



ANGER, DENIAL, LYING

When a man is wrong and won't admit it, he always gets angry.

Haliburton



CALM, PEACEFUL, ANGER, EVEN, COPING, EMOTION, FEELING,
ADVERSITY, STRESS, VOLITION, SELF CONTROL

"Remember to preserve an even mind in adverse circumstances, and
likewise in prosperity a mind free from overweening joy."

Horace, Odes



SELF CONTROL, PASSION, RAGE

Anger is a short madness.

Horace



ANGER, INTELLECT, JUDGEMENT, PEACEFUL, TEMPERAMENT, CLARITY

"Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a
great and important question, everyone should be serene, slow
pulsed and calm."

Robert Green Ingersoll



FEELING, EXPRESSION, INTENSITY

"...the mere giving way to tears, for example, or to the outward
 expression of an anger-fit, will result for the moment in
making the inner grief or anger more acutely felt.

James, W.



SENSATION SEEKING, EXCITEMENT, INTENSITY,  DEEP, STRENGTH,

All the passions seek that which nourishes them; fear loves the
idea of danger.

Joubert



ANGER, IMPULSIVITY,  RAGE,  SELF CONTROL, REGULATION,  AROUSAL

People who habitually erupt, who constantly explode ... have not
formed a personal structure that will contain and expand their
excitement. ...  they live an unbounded life. They use others to
give them a skin, a sense of themselves. They are like a stew
always boiling. Stanley Keleman, Somatic Reality



CHARACTER, SELF CONTROL, TEMPERAMENT, STRENGTH, IRRITANT, ANGER

The size of the man can be measured by the size of the thing
that makes him angry.

J. Kenfield Morley, Some Things I believe, 1937



NEGATIVITY, FEELINGS, PATHOLOGY, ANGER, FEAR,

The strangest and most fantastic fact about negative emotions is
that people actually worship them.

P.D. Ouspensky



ANGER, GUILT, FEAR, REACTION,

It is he who is in the wrong who first gets angry.

Wm. Penn



Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374

ANGER, SELF CONTROL, EMBARASSMENT, REGRET

"Short madness is man's anger, and to him

Who checks it not, Long madness, so that he

Full oft to shame, Mayhap to death is brought."

Petrarch, sonetti sopra Vari argomenti, XIX



NEGATIVE EMOTIONS, FEELINGS, VICES, SELF CONTROL, FLAWS

Five great enemies to peace inhabit with us, viz. Avarice,
Ambition, Envy, Anger, and Pride, and that if those enemies were
to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.

Petrarch



DEATH SENTENCE, SILENCE,

"Wherefore, O  judges, be of good cheer about death and know
this of a truth-- that no evil can happen to a good man, either
in life or in death.

I am not angry with my accusers or my condemners; they have done
me no harm, although neither of them meant to do me any good;
and for this I may gently blame them."

Plato, APOLOGY OF SOCRATES



PHYSIOLOGY, EMOTIONS, PASSION

And having a body constitutes the principle danger that
threatens the mind.

Proust, Marcel, Remembrance of Things Past



REGRET, EXCESS,

Anger begins with folly and ends with repentance.

Pythagoras



FLAWS, TOLERANCE

Anger causes us often to condemn in one what we approve in
another.

Pasquier Quesnel



DREAMS, WISHES, HEAVEN, LUCK, KARMA

Be afraid, sir, be afraid lest stern heaven should hate you so
much as to grant your prayers. In its anger it often receives
our offerings; its gifts are often the punishment of our crimes.

Racine, Phedre



ANGER

Don't permit yourself to show temper. Always remember that if
you are right you can afford to keep your temper, and if you are
wrong you cannot afford to lose it.

J.J. Reynolds



The errors of the heart are far more dangerous than the
extravagances of the imagination.

St. Evremond, Sur l'Amitie



Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take
precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger.

Seneca



EMOTION, FEELING, ADVERSITY, STRESS, RELAXATION, PEACE,
SERENITY, CALM, PEACEFUL, ANGER, EVEN,

"It is the nature of a great mind to be calm and undisturbed."

Seneca, De Clementia



The greatest remedy for anger is delay

Seneca



"CHARITY, PATIENCE, ANGER, FORGIVENESS

"A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient,
nor does he take it ill to railed at by a man in fever. Just so
should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his
patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant."

Seneca



ANGER

Strong temper may only mean a strong and excitable will.
Uncontrolled, it displays itself in fitful outbreaks of passion;
but controlled and held in subjection--like steam pent up within
the organized mechanism of a steam engine, the use of which is
regulated by slide valves and governors and levers-- it may
become a source of energetic power and usefulness. Hence, some
of the greatest characters in history have been men of strong
temper, but of equally strong determination to hold their motive
power under strict regulation and control.

Samuel Smiles, CHARACTER



ANGER

Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?

Solomon, Proverbs 6:27



EMOTION

Anger is a transient hatred; or at least, very like it.

South



Anger manages everything badly

Stadius



PASSION

"When the heart is full, it is angry at all words that cannot
come up to it."

Swift, Jonathan



When angry, count a hundred; when very angry, swear.

Twain



FARADAY, ANGER, PASSION, CONCENTRATION

underneath his sweetness and gentleness was the heat of a
volcano. He was a man of excitable and fiery nature; but.
through high self-discipline, he had converted the fire into a
central glow and motive power of life, instead of permitting it
to waste itself in useless passion.

Tyndall, Faraday as a Discoverer



Keep cool, anger is not an argument.

Daniel Webster



MATURITY, ANGER

"Men resist the conclusion in the morning, but adopt it as the
evening wears on, that Temper prevails over everything

of Time place and condition, and it is consumable in the flames
of religion. For Temperament is a power  which no man willingly
hears anyone praise but himself. Temperament puts all divinity
to rout"

rwe ib.



R/L BRAIN, SELF CONTROL, ANGER, LOVE

"If passion drives, let reason hold the reins."

Franklin, Benjamin, POOR RICHARD'S ALMANAC



Whate'ers begun in anger ends in shame.

Ben Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac



Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.

B. Franklin, P.R.A.



DEBATE, DISPUTE, ANGER

"Quarrels never last long, if on one side only lay the wrong."

Franklin, Benjamin, POOR RICHARD'S ALMANAC



ANGER,

The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating
ourselves as we hate our neighbors.

O.W. Holmes



Anger is excited principally by pride.

Samuel Johnson, Boswells Life of Johnson



ANGER, TYPE A, HOSTILITY, KARMA

"Put not your worthy rage into your tongue

ONe time will owe another."

Shakespeare,  William, Coriolanus

Anger's my meat; I sup upon myself,

And so shall starve with feeding.

Shaks. Coriolanus Act. iv, Sc. 2



I have a heart of mettle apt as yours,

But yet a brain that leads my use of anger to better vantage."

Shakespeare,  William, Coriolanus





ANGER

"Unknit that threat'ning, unkind brow;

It blots thy beauty, as frost bites the meads,

Confounds thy fame.

W. Shakespeare



If you have written a clever and conclusive, but scathing
letter, keep it back till the next day, and it well very often
never go at all.

John Lubbock



SELF CONTROL, HOLDING BACK, RESULTS, KARMA, OUTCOME, OFFENSE,
YINYANG

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than
the injury that provokes it.

Seneca



PATIENCE, DELAY, SELF CONTROL, REGRET, IMPULSE, EQUANIMITY

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a
hundred days of sorrow.

Chinese proverb



TEMPER, SMALL, PETTY, SHALLOW, CHARACTER, WEAK, ANGER, IMPULSE

A little pot boils easily.

Dutch Proverb



ANGER, CONFESSION, EXPRESSION, SUPPRESSION, REPRESSION, HOLDING
BACK, FORGIVE, FURY, HATE, ENEMY

I was angry with my friend:

I told my wrath, my wrath did end.

I was angry at my foe:

I told it not, my wrath did grow.

William Blake



ANGER, MOTIVATION, RIGHTEOUSNESS, RESENTMENT, INSPIRATION,
ACTIVATION

A good indignation brings out all one's  powers.

RW Emerson



ANGER, REJECTION, DIVORCE

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned,

Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.

William Congreve



BURNING, EXPRESSION,

Anger as soon as fed is dead--

'Tis starving makes it fat.

Emily Dickinson



PERSPECTIVE, ANGER, FORGIVENESS

Think when you are enraged at anyone, what would probably become
your sentiments should he die during the dispute.

William Shenstone



ANGER, RAGE,

The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns you more than him.

Chinese Proverb



Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it
goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed byit more than
the one against whom it is directed.

Edward Hyde Clarendon



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

Pope



When you are very angry, think about how momentary a man's life
is.

Marcus Aurelius



Act nothing in a furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.

Thomas Fuller



Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger
concealed often hardens into revenge.

Bulwer



SELF CONTROL, ANGER, STRESS,

Keep cool and you command everybody.

Louis Leon de St. Just, 1767-94 (french rev. leader)



RUTS, RAGE, BURNOUT, HABIT, CHRONIC

Frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be
angry; which ofttimes ends in choler, bitterness and morosity,
when the mind becomes ulcerated, peevish and querelous, and is
wounded by the least occurence.

Plutarch



PASSION, ROMANCE, EXCITEMENT, EMOTION, FLICKER

The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

W.S. Landor



PASSION, FURY, RAGE, UGLY, TWISTED

There is not in nature a thing that makes man so deformed, so
beastly, as doth intemperate anger.

John Webster



SELF CONTROL, ATTITUDE

To rule ones anger is well; to prevent it is still better.

Tryon Edwards



INSIGHT, AGITATION, IMAGE, APPEARANCE

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to
others, but hides us from ourselves-- We injure our own cause in
the opinion of the world when we too passionately defend it.

Colton



Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.

Bible, Ephesians, 4:26



INSIGHT, SELF CONTROL

An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to
reason.

Publius Syrus



ANGER

As jacked as it sounds, the whole system sucks.

Michael Jackson



ANGER, TRUTH

Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry. If he has
charged you with any thing, you had better look it up.

H.W. Beecher, Life Thoughts, 1858





ANGER, NEGOTIATION, MARRIAGE, RELATIONSHIP

Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.

Phyllis Diller, 1966



A man makes his inferiors his superiors by heat. ...Self control
is the rule.

R.W Emerson, 1876



Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.

Ben Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac



Like an uncheked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats
away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and
his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly
and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the
false and the false with the true.

Martin Luther King, Strength to Love, 1963



A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be
good.

Henry Ward Beecher, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit





Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants (doesn't
have) it hath a maimed mind.

Thomas Fuller



PREVENTION, ANGER

Always shun whatever would make you angry.

Pulilius Syrus, Moral Sayings



ANGER, RAGE, ACTION, RULES, INTELLECT, EMOTION, PASSION,

The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps
o'er a cold decree.

Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, 1,2, 19