Anger Quotes

"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."

"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."

"While seeking revenge, dig two graves - one for yourself."

"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."

"When anger rises, think of the consequences."

"When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred."

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

"Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness."

"Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean."

"Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you're doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you."

"I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him."

"He who angers you conquers you."

"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."

"Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret."

"In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive."

"Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned."

"Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance."

"Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you."

"Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind."

"If you get down and quarell everyday, you're saying prayers to the devil, I say."

"Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding."

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

"Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame."

"Keep your temper. A decision made in anger is never sound."

"We boil at different degrees."

"How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it."

"When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger."

"A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them."

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

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