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.
Buddha

Someone, Else, Hot

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

Time, Power, Angry

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

Harm, Acid, Vessel

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
Albert Einstein

Fools, Bosom, Dwells

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

Fire, Bitterness, Cancer

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.
Buddha

Truth, Ourselves, Striving

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Peace, Mind, Angry

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.
Mahatma Gandhi

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

Best, Angry, Regret

When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.
Mark Twain

Angry, Four, Count

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

Angry, Before, Speak

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
Mahatma Gandhi

Sleep, Forget, Down

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
Benjamin Franklin

Whatever, Shame, Ends

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.
James Russell Lowell

Change, Sad, Angry

When anger rises, think of the consequences.
Confucius

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
Christopher Morley

Life, Failure, Angry

It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.
Wayne Dyer

Time, Power, Angry

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

Him, Before, Less

Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.
Richard M. Nixon

Angry, Impression, Respects

Get mad, then get over it.
Colin Powell

He who angers you conquers you.
Elizabeth Kenny

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

Love, Woman, Hell

Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.
Francis Quarles

Patience, Long, Him

Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
Phyllis Diller

Fight, Mad, Stay

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

Angry, Help, Person

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