Quotes on anger
I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.
Waters, Maxine
Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.
Antoninus, Marcus Aurelius
Do not teach your children never to be angry; teach them how to be angry.
Abbott, Lyman
Anger is a symptom, a way of cloaking and expressing feelings too awful to experience directly; hurt, bitterness, grief and, most of all, fear.
Rivers, Joan
The worst-tempered people I've ever met were people who knew they were wrong.
Mizner, Wilson
Resentment is an extremely bitter diet, and eventually poisonous. I have no desire to make my own toxins.
Kinnock, Neil
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.
L'Armour, Louis
The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
Schiff, Jacqueline
When angry, count four; when very angry, swear.
Twain, Mark
The United States is not stingy. We are the greatest contributor to international efforts in the world.
Powell, Colin
When a man dwells on the objects of sense, he creates an attraction for them attraction develops into desire, and desire breeds anger.
Gita, Bhagavad
Can anger survive without his hypocrisy?
Teague, Jareb
Free from gross passion or of mirth or anger constant in spirit, not swerving with the blood, garnish'd and deck'd in modest compliment, not working with the eye without the ear, and but in purged judgement trusting neither Such and so finely bolted didst thou seem.
Shakespeare, William
If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
Harris, Sydney J.
If you're angry at a loved one, hug that person. And mean it. You may not want to hug, which is all the more reason to do so. It's hard to stay angry when someone shows they love you, and that's precisely what happens when we hug each other.
Anderson, Walter
Never write a letter while you are angry.
Proverb, Chinese
Guilt is anger directed at ourselves; at what we did or did not do.
Author, Unknown
Vicious minds abound with anger and revenge are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies.
Chesterfield, Earl of
Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them.
Fallows, James
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.
Author, Unknown
Anger ventilated often hurries toward forgiveness; and concealed often hardens into revenge.
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George
He who angers you conquers you.
Kenny, Elizabeth
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
Eliot, George
Anger blows out the lamp of the mind.
Ingersoll, Robert Green
What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.
Nixon, Richard M.