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Here are the best inspirational quotes and sayings for 2023 about frustration, hate, and worries that will inspire you to control your anger in life.
Short Quotes About Anger
1. “Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame” – Benjamin Franklin
2. “Anger is not power: it is a victim state” – Hugh Prather
3. “Anger blows out the lamp of the mind” – Robert G. Ingersoll
4. “When anger rises, think of the consequences” – Confucius
5. “Anger is only one letter short of danger” – Eleanor Roosevelt
6. “Anger is really disappointed hope” – Erica Jong
7. “He who angers you conquers you” – Elizabeth Kenny
8. “The best answer for anger is silence” – Paulo Coelho
Quotes On Constructive And Positive Anger
9. “There’s nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively” – Wayne Dyer
10. “Anger is also a beautiful emotion. It’s the emotion of self-care, of self-protection. It is the emotion by which we make ourselves known to others as worthy, valuable human beings. Anger is the way we tell other people that they’ve gone too far, that they’ve crossed the invisible boundary they shouldn’t have crossed if they want to remain in our good graces” – Daphne Rose Kingmsa
11. “Anger is our unconsciousness’s fastest way to let us know that our boundaries are being stepped on” – Wendy Hammond
12. “Anger is not the opposite of love, for the opposite of love is indifference. To be angry is to care tremendously. It is a signal that your caring extends beyond polite conversation, and that you are willing to risk a confrontation to share how you feel” – Doris Moreland Jones
13. “Anger is just anger. It isn’t good. It isn’t bad. It just is. What you do with it is what matters. It’s like anything else. You can use it to build or to destroy. You just have to make the choice” – Jim Butcher
14. “Anger is a valid emotion. It’s only bad when it takes control and makes you do things you don’t want to do” – Ellen Hopkins
15. “Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world” – William Shenstone
16. “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
Quotes To Express Anger
17. “You don’t have to chase anger out of you. You allow it to be in you, you embrace it tenderly, and then anger will subside, and the danger is overcome” – Thich Nhat Hanh
18. “It is wise to direct your anger towards problems – not people; to focus your energies on answers – not excuses” – William Arthur Ward
19. “When you feel anger beginning to build up inside of you, let your whole body droop and relax to the best of your ability while beginning to breathe slowly from the diaphragm. Breathing in this way helps to calm both the body and the mind which leads to letting go of anger before it takes a hold” – Marge Powers
20. “Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath” – Thich Nhat Hanh
21. “In anger we should refrain both from speech and action” – Pythagoras
22. “To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves” – Alexander Pope
23. “Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it” – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
24. “Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep” – Mahatma Gandhi
Quotes On Negative Effects Of Feeling Angry
25. “To be angry is to let others’ mistakes punish yourself” – Buddha
26. “Anger is the emotion that separates. It cuts everything right in two” – Charlotte Joko Beck
27. “We are not punished for our anger; we are punished by our anger. In other words, anger is its own karma” – Eknath Easwaran
28. “Anger is what keeps us from tolerating the intolerable” – William Sloane Coffin
29. “Do not let your anger lead to hatred, as you will hurt yourself more than you would the other” – Stephen Richards
30. “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
31. “Holding on to anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die” – Buddha
32. “If anger proceeds from a great cause, it turns to fury; if from a small cause, it is peevishness; and so is always either terrible or ridiculous” – Jeremy Taylor
Wise Quotes About Anger
33. “The trouble with anger is, it gets hold of you. And then you aren’t the master of yourself anymore. Anger is” – Jeanne DuPrau
34. “Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath” – Eckhart Tolle
35. “Anger is like a flame blazing up and consuming our self-control, making us think, say, and do things that we will probably regret later” – Nhat Hanh
36. “Anger should never be an overnight guest” – Neal A. Maxwell
37. “Anger is a brief madness” – Horace
38. “Anger … it’s a paralyzing emotion … you can’t get anything done” – Toni Morrison
39. “Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can’t last” – Greg Evans
40. “Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before – it takes something from him” – Louis L’Amour
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