Thoughts of Anger Or Angry Quotes in English

The emotion of anger is something that we all experience at some point in our lives. Whether it's frustration over a situation, irritation with someone else's behavior, or just a general feeling of annoyance, anger is an emotion that can be difficult to navigate. The key is finding healthy ways to express and manage our anger, rather than allowing it to control us.

One way to explore and process our feelings of anger is through reading angry quotes in English. Sometimes, seeing our emotions reflected back to us through the words of others can be validating and cathartic. Here are a few powerful angry quotes that capture the intensity and complexity of this emotion:

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

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

3. “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

4. “Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.” - Mahatma Gandhi

5. “Anyone can become angry - that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way - this is not easy.” - Aristotle

Quotes like these remind us that anger is a natural and valid emotion, but it's important to approach it with mindfulness and awareness. Using these quotes as a starting point, we can begin to explore our own feelings of anger and develop healthier ways of coping with them. Whether it's through journaling, talking to a friend, or seeking professional help, there are many productive ways to navigate the turbulent waters of anger.

Ultimately, by acknowledging and honoring our feelings of anger, we can learn to express them in ways that are constructive and empowering. Instead of letting anger consume us, we can harness its energy to drive positive change in our lives and the world around us.

If you have any favorite angry quotes or thoughts on the emotion of anger, feel free to share them in the comments below. Let's continue the conversation about this powerful and complex emotion.

Today Thoughts of the day Angry

Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.

- Angry Thought by H. G. Bohn Download or Share

Anger swirled in him, a tempest readying her strike. And like a helpless vessel caught in her fury, he felt himself dashed against the rocks without mercy.

- V.S. Carnes

Sometimes it's better to be kind than to be right. We do not need an intelligent mind that speaks, but a patient heart that listens. You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

- Gautama Buddha

If you stay in the company of anger, pain, or hurt, happiness will find someone else to visit. Make the choice to view all of your past relationships as a gift. Throw out what hasn’t worked in the past and incorporate new concepts. Focus on being happy.

- Kristen Crockett

The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence.

- Henry Ward Beecher

Any one can become angry, That is easy. But to be angry with the right person to the right degree at the right time for the right purpose and in the right way. That is not easy.

- Aristotle

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 only for the right purpose, and in the right way-that is not within the power of everybody and is not easy.

- Aristotle Quotation

Suppose you have a quick temper. When something ignites it, hold a picture in your mind of yourself, calmly extinguishing it. If you can't extinguish it, you may atleast delay it, which is often the best cure for anger.

- Norman Vincent Peale

Anger is like flowing water; there's nothing wrong with it as long as you let it flow. Hate is like stagnant water; anger that you denied yourself the freedom to feel, the freedom to flow; water that you gathered in one place and left to forget. Stagnant water becomes dirty, stinky, disease-ridden, poisonous, deadly; that is your hate. On flowing water travels little paper boats; paper boats of forgiveness. Allow yourself to feel anger, allow your waters to flow, along with all the paper boats of forgiveness. Be human.

- C. JoyBell C.

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

Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty.  Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.

- Babylonian Talmud

Anger has its place, but it will not serve you here, the way of the warrior is the way of knowing. Of that knowledge requires you to use anger, then you use anger, but you cannot wrest forth knowledge by losing your temper.

- Christopher Paolini

I felt as if I had no control over what I said, as if loathsome, ugly words were waiting inside me like snakes and toads looking for a chance to sneak out before I could stop them.

- Gloria Whelan

Angry Thought in English

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

- A Quotation From Albert Einstein Download or Share

It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke.  For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.

- James Whitcomb Riley

Anger is a short madness.

- Thoughts from Horace Download or Share

Anger’s not a good emotion.

- Lincoln Chafees Download or Share

Anger is a brief lunacy.

- Horace Download or Share

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

- Robert Green Ingersoll Download or Share

Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.

- David O. Mckay Download or Share

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.

- Thomas Fuller Download or Share

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

- George Savile Download or Share

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.

- Thomas Fuller Download or Share

Anger has a way of seeping into every other emotion and planting itself in there.

- Dane Cook Download or Share

Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of a certain income can indulge.

- St Gregory The Great Download or Share

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

- Edward F. Halifax Download or Share

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

- Benjamin Franklin Download or Share

Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.

- George William Curtis Download or Share

No person is important enough to make me angry.

- Carlos Castaneda Download or Share

Every time you get angry, you poison your own system.

- Alfred A. Montapert Download or Share

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

- Cato the Elder Download or Share

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

- Phyllis Diller Download or Share

When I am angry I can pray well and preach well.

- Martin Luther Download or Share

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

- William Congreve

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

- Mark Twain

Every time you get angry, you poison your own system.

- Alfred A. Montapert American Author

No one is as angry as the person who is wrong.

- Proverb

Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

- Malabar Proverb sayings of Malabar Origin

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.

- St. Francis De Sales

I wanted to get angry, this guy pushed me so hard.

- Rick Riordan

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

- Thomas Jefferson

Tantrums are seldom about the thing they appear to be about.

- Diana Wynne Jones

Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.

- William R. Alger

Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade.

- Sir James M. Barrie

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Getting angry doesn’t solve anything.

- Grace Kelly

Go ahead, Make my day.

- Clint Eastwood

We boil at different degrees.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

- Benjamin Franklin

He who angers you conquers you.

- Elizabeth Kenny

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

- Indira Gandhi

Violent anger makes me physically ill.

- Langston Hughes

Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.

- Eckhart Tolle

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

- Mark Twain

When you learn that a truth is a lie, anger follows.

- Grace Slick

Anger is short madness

- Horace

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

- Horace

Expressing anger is a form of public littering.

- Willard Gaylin

The opposite of anger is not calmness, its empathy.

- Mehmet Oz

I’ve never felt that anger is a very powerful emotion.

- John Hurt

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

- Proverb

I get angry about things, then go on and work.

- Toni Morrison

One of man’s greatest obligations is anger.

- Nikos Kazantzakis

The best fighter is never angry.

- Lao Tzu

Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.

- Phyllis Diller

The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.

- John Ruskin

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

- Joe Klaas

An angry people cannot create anything that is not imbued with anger.

- John McAfee

Be Angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger.

- Bible sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism

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

- Ambrose Bierce

I want to commit the murder I was imprisoned for.

- J.K. Rowling

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

- Ambrose Bierce

Angry people are not always wise.

- Jane Austen

As soon as anger knocks at one’s door, wisdom prepares to leave.

- Pawan Mishra

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

- Francis Bacon

Anger as soon as fed is dead; 'Tis starving makes it fat.

- Emily Dickinson

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.

- Mahatma Gandhi

A heart filled with anger has no room for love.

- Joan Lunden

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you are.

- Cherie Carter-Scott

Anger rest in the bosom of fools.

- Bible sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism

If you try to get rid of fear and anger without knowing their meaning, they will grow stronger and return.

- Deepak Chopra

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Daniel Webster Download or Share

Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger.

Abraham Cahan Download or Share

Anger is what makes a clear mind seem clouded.

- by Kazi Shams Download or Share

Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.

- Beverly Sills Download or Share

Anger is one letter short of danger.

Eleanor Roosevelt Download or Share

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

- Mahatma Gandhi Download or Share

Not the fastest horse can catch a word spoken in anger.

- Chinese Proverb Download or Share

I don’t usually lose my temper, but if I get angry, it’s true - I’m scary.

- About Life by Eva Mendes Download or Share

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

- by Marcus Aurelius Download or Share

He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.

Sallust Download or Share

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

- Alexander Pope Download or Share

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

Marcus Aurelius Download or Share

Anger does not solve problems - anger only makes things worse. I go by the old saying, ‘Don’t make important decisions when you’re angry.

- Lionel Sosa

Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind.  Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.

- Buddha

Anger is an unnecessary emotion. Loads of stuff in life can trigger it, but what matters is how you react. I choose not to react.

- Nicola Adams

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

- Edward G. Bulwer- Lytton

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

Anger becomes limiting, restricting. You can’t see through it. While anger is there, look at that, too. But after a while, you have to look at something else.

- Thylias Moss

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

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

Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

- Mahatma Gandhi

Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

- William Shenstone

Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night; the continuance of anger is hatred, the continuance of hatred turns malice.

- Francis Quarles

Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.

- G. S. Hillard

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

- G. M. Trevelyan

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

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you are.

- Cherie Carter-Scott

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.

- Angry Thought in English by Louis L’Amour

Anger can be a useful emotion; it’s built into our genetic code to help with self preservation. But it can also be destructive, even when it is justified.

- Michael Hayden

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

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

- Aristotle

Anyone can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person at the right time and for the right purpose and in the right way – that is not within everyone’s power and that is not easy.

- Aristotle

Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.

- James Baldwin

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

- Leo Buscaglia

Learn this from me. Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves.

- Mitch Albom

If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful.  The flame is not wring, but the coals are.

- Henry Ward Beecher

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

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

- Epictetus

Bridget's anger evaporated and the sadness came back. The anger was easier. She owned and controlled it, whereas the sadness owned her.

- Ann Brashares

When I am right, I get angry.  Churchill gets angry when he is wrong.  So we were often angry at each other.

- Charles De Gaulle

Never respond to an angry person with a fiery comeback, even if he deserves it… Don’t allow his anger to become your anger.

- Bohdi Sanders

Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy.

- Roy T. Bennett

Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything - anger, anxiety, or possessions - we cannot be free.

- Thich Nhat Hanh

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

- Sidney J. Harris

Americans are slow to anger, but once they do get angry, they are impossible to stop.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

An angry man is always full of poison.

Confucious

Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.

Henry Ward Beecher

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

John Webster Download or Share

When angry count four; when very angry swear.

Mark Twain

It takes two flints to make a fire.

- Louisa May Alcott

A soft answer truth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger.

- Bible sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism Download or Share

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

Horace Download or Share

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

- Ambrose Bierce Download or Share

Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.

- H. G. Bohn Download or Share *

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

- John F. Boyes Download or Share

Anger cannot be dishonest.

George R. Bach Download or Share

Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.

- Bible sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism

It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and angry woman.

- Bible sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism

Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.

- Bible sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism

He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.

- Bible sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism

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

- Lee Iacocca

If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you're allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.

- Shannon L. Alder

My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow t speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires.

- Bible sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism

Scornful men bring a city into a snare, but wise men turn away wrath.

- Bible sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism

The discretion of a man deferred his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.

- Bible sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism

The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.

- Bible sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism

It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people; to focus your energies on answers - not excuses.

- William Arthur Ward

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.

- Buddha

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

- William Congreve

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

- Benjamin Franklin

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

- Buddha

Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.

- Baltasar Gracian

Anger, resentment and jealousy doesn't change the heart of others-- it only changes yours.

- Shannon Alder

Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

- Akhenaton

Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.

- Greg Evans

Anger… it’s a paralyzing emotion. You can’t get anything done.

- Toni Morrison

The harder you fall, the heavier your heart; the heavier your heart, the stronger you climb; the stronger you climb, the higher your pedestal.

- Criss Jami

Never respond to an angry person with a fiery comeback, even if he deserves it...Don't allow his anger to become your anger.

- Bohdi Sanders

It is okay of talking about the past, as long as there's no bitterness and anger. It only gives you a heart attack. It won't change the past either.

- Ann Marie Aguilar

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

- Thomas Carlyle

To say I had some pent-up anger would be like saying Britney Spears had minor impulse-control issues.

- Molly Harper

I used to shore my anger and it affected my play. Now I get it out.  I'm never rude to my playing partner.  I'm very focused on the ball.  Then it's over.

- Helen Alfredsson

A young outcast will often feel that there is something wrong with himself, but as he gets older, grows more confident in who he is, he will adapt, he will begin to feel that there is something wrong with everyone else.

- Criss Jami

I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they.

- E. B.  White

As the whirlwind in its fury teareth up trees, and deformeth the face of nature, or as an earthquake in its convulsions overturneth whole cities; so the rage of an angry man throweth mischief around him.

- Akhenaton

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

- Barbara De Angelis

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

- Sydney J. Harris

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

- Maya Angelou

Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.

- Marcus Antonius

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.

- Malcolm X

Something my mum taught me years and years and years ago, is life’s just too short to carry around a great bucket-load of anger and resentment and bitterness and hatreds and all that sort of stuff.

- Kevin Rudd

Anyone can become angry - that is easy.  But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way - this is not easy.

- Aristotle

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

- Clarendon

Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves.

- Mitch Albom

I Know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

- Frank Moore Colby

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

- Confucius

Life's not that simple. Not so easy to move on when the anger you've got is what keeps you going.

- Rachel Ward

I believe anger is a wasted emotion, and I don’t like to waste emotions.

- Jim Webb

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

- Charles Caleb Colton

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

- Confucius

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

- Plato

Heaven has o rage like love to hatred turned, Nor ell a fury like a woman scorned.

- William Congreve

But she wished she had had the guts to go up to him and say hello. Or possibly break his legs, she wasn't sure which.

- Stieg Larsson

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

- Maya Angelou

Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid at the back of reason, to come to the front when bidden.  For once it begins to take control of the mind, it calls just what it does cruelly.

- George William Curtis

Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.

- Kahlil Gibran

He who holds back rising anger like a rolling chariot, him I call a real driver; other people are but holding the reins

- Dhammapada

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.

- Joel Osteen

There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.

- Wayne Dyer

What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you.

- Wayne Dyer

When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out - because that's what's inside.  When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside.

- Wayne Dyer

If you kick a stone in anger you will hurt your foot.

- Korean Proverb

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

- Chinese Proverb

To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.

- Tryon Edwards

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

- Barbara De Angelis

A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

People won’t have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

- Stephen Hawking

I think, often, when you are in just a lot of pain, it comes out as anger.

- Nell Hudson

I don’t think your ability to fight has anything to do with how big you are. It’s to do with how much anger is in you.

- Amy Winehouse

The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man… it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.

- Sigmund Freud

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

- Thomas Fuller

A little anger is a good thing if it isn’t on your own behalf, if it’s for others deserving of your anger, your empathy.

- David Simon

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

- Ford Frick

Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.

- Thomas Fuller

Anger ventilated often hurries toward forgiveness; and concealed often hardens into revenge.

- Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

You can survive with anger, but you can’t live with it forever.

- Ariel Dorfman

A lot of artists think they want anger. But a real, strong, bitter anger occupies the mind, leaving no room for creativity.

- David Lynch

Life is precious and there’s not a lot of room for anger.

- Fran Drescher

Most men's anger about religion is as if two men quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.

- Edward F. Halifax

There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.

- Saint Francis de Sales

Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one’s ability to persuade.

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Wise anger is like fire from a fling: thee is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.

- M Henry

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

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

- Horace

Sometimes with anger you can be much more dangerous than with skill.

- Mathieu Amalric

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

- Lyman Abbott

Always keep your composure.  You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.

- Bobby Hull

A man can’t eat anger for breakfast and sleep with it at night and not suffer damage to his soul.

- Garrison Keillor

Acting in anger and hatred throughout my life, I frequently precipitated what I feared most, the loss of friendships and the need to rely upon the very people I’d abused.

- Luke Ford

Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool what grows keener with constant use.

- Washington Irving

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

- Thomas Jefferson

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.

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

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

- Joseph Joubert

There’s a reason why anger, fear, and hatred are paths to the dark side: they all spring from a single source - the same source as a certain flavor of love. A dangerously sweet, addictive flavor.

- Matthew Stover

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

- Walter Savage Landor

Anger is stupid, and stupidity will kill you more surely than your opponent's blade.

- Patricia Briggs

He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.

- Saint Albertus Magnus

The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life.

 - Samurai Maxim

The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong.

- Wilson Mizner

Most hatred is based on fear, one way or another. Yeah. I wrapped myself in anger, with a dash of hate, and at the bottom of it all was an icy center of pure terror.

- Laurell K. Hamilton

A wave of anger washed over me, anger against myself, at my age at the time, that stupid lyrically age, when a man is too great a riddle to himself to be interested in the riddles outside himself and when other people are mere walking mirrors in which he is amazed to find his own emotions, his own worth.

- Milan Kundera Quotation

A lot of people think they should be happy all the time. But the writer understands you need both. You need the whole piano: the richness of the whole human experience. Depression, suffering and anger are all part of being human.

- Janet Fitch

All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable.  But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.

- Babe Paley

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do not suppress it-that would hurt you inside.  Do not express it-this would not only hurt you inside, it would cause ripples in your surroundings.  What you do is transform it.

- Peace Pilgrim

He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

- Plato

He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.

- Proverb

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

- Proverb

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

- Chinese proverb Sayings of Chinese Origin

There’s nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.

- Wayne Dyer

My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world.

- Jack Layton

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

- Thomas De Quincey

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

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

- Jules Renard

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

- Buddha

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

- Marcus Aurelius

Sensitive people usually love deeply and hate deeply. They don't know any other way to live than by extremes because thier emotional theromastat is broken.

- Shannon L. Alder

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

This was a little house, with a ceiling that kept getting higher and higher, a hot place with no windows. This was anger.

- Helen Oyeyemi

If you find yourself using anger as a general pattern of behaviour, remember that anger will generally leave you feeling foolish and sorry in the end.

- George Stevenson

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

- Angry Thought by Plato

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.

- Cherie Carter-scoot

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

 

 

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