Angry Words Quotes

• Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Inspirational, Cute, Sad

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• Anger is one letter short of danger.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Positive, Wise

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• He who angers you conquers you.

  Elizabeth Kenny

  Inspirational, Life, Anger

  "Fictional character: Arturo". "Public Art", www.imdb.com. 2017.

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• Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wise, 4th Of July, Anger

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.36, Nayika Publishing

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• For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Success, Forgiveness

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• 

  Get mad, then get over it.

  Colin Powell

  Life, Moving On, Wise

  Colin Powell (2012). “It Worked for Me: In Life and Leadership”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

  Solomon

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Kings

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• Do not teach your children never to be angry; teach them how to be angry.

  Lyman Abbott

  Baby, Children, Crazy

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• Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

  Joan Lunden

  Forgiveness, Hurt, Laughter

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• Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the crudest words.

  Joyce Brothers

  Anger, Bad Relationship, Poison

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• Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.

  Steven Wright

  Depression, Sarcastic, Anger

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• If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

  Sydney J. Harris

  Wisdom, Anger, Power

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• People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.

  Will Rogers

  Inspirational, Funny, Crazy

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• Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

  Joan Lunden

  Forgiveness, Hurt, Laughter

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• You can measure the happiness of a marriage by the number of scars that each partner carries on their tongues, earned from years of biting back angry words.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Relationship, Family, Years

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.442, A&C Black

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• I no longer become angry. I not only do not say angry words, I do not even think angry thoughts! If someone does an unkind thing to me I feel only compassion instead of resentment. Even upon those who cause suffering I look with deep compassion, knowing the harvest of sorrow that lies in store for them. If there were those who hated me, I would love them in return, knowing that hatred can only be overcome by love, and knowing that there is good in all human beings which can be reached by a loving approach.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Lying, Thinking, Compassion

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.112, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• ... so far from entrenching human conduct within the gentle barriers of peace and love, religion has ever been, and now is, the deepest source of contentions, wars, persecutions for conscience sake, angry words, angry feelings, backbitings, slanders, suspicions, false judgments, evil interpretations, unwise, unjust, injurious, inconsistent actions.

  Frances Wright

  War, Evil, Feelings

  Frances Wright (1829). “Course of popular lectures as delivered by Frances Wright: with three addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789. Second edition”, p.107

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• It's no coincidence that good words make us feel good and that hurtful or angry words make us feel bad. There is a 100 percent correlation between the words we choose and how we feel.

  Sean Stephenson

  Feel Good, Hurtful, Coincidence

  Sean Stephenson (2009). “Get Off Your "But": How to End Self-Sabotage and Stand Up for Yourself”, p.57, John Wiley and Sons

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• Swallowing angry words before you say them is better than having to eat them afterwards.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Swallowing, Angry

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• Speaking your truth with love ensures that others will hear your message, since angry words can shut down communication.

  Doreen Virtue

  Communication, Messages, Angry

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• Sorrowful words become the sorrowful; angry words suit the passionate; light words a playful expression; serious words suit the grave.
  [Lat., Tristia maestum
  Vultum verba decent; iratum, plena minarum;
  Ludentem, lasciva: severum, seria dictu.]

  Horace

  Light, Expression, Passionate

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• Before you speak, my friend, remember, a spiritual man contain his anger. Angry words are like slap in de face.

  Chris Abani

  Spiritual, Anger, Men

  Chris Abani (2005). “GraceLand: A Novel”, p.9, Macmillan

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• Do no sinful action, speak no angry word; ye belong to Jesus, children of the Lord.

  Cecil Frances Alexander

  Jesus, Children, Action

  Cecil Frances Alexander (1852). “Hymns for little children”, p.21

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• I know that sentence is long and has too many joining words in it but sometimes, when I'm angry, words burst out of me like a shout, or, if I'm sad, they spill out of me like tears, and if I'm happy my words are like a song. If that happens it's one of my rules not to change them because they're coming out of my heart and not my head, and that's the way they're meant to be.

  Glenda Millard

  Song, Heart, Long

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• I said, "OK, Ammon [Hennacy], I will try that." He said, "You came into the world armed to the teeth. With an arsenal of weapons, weapons of privilege, economic privilege, sexual privilege, racial privilege. You want to be a pacifist, you're not just going to have to give up guns, knives, clubs, hard, angry words, you are going to have lay down the weapons of privilege and go into the world completely disarmed."

  Utah Phillips

  Giving Up, Gun, Knives

  Interview with David Kupfer, progressive.org. September 1, 2003.

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