In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. Thanks to Ellen Fletcher.
Albert Schweitzer
Temper tantrums, however fun they may be to throw, rarely solve whatever problem is causing them.
Lemony Snicket
I don’t have to attend every argument I’m invited to.
Bede Jarrett
Can anger survive without his hypocrisy?
Jareb Teague
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
Malice drinks one-half of its own poison.
Seneca
The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn’t angry enough.
Bede Jarrett
Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
Phyllis Diller
In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer.
Mark Twain
Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
Malachy McCourt
If you kick a stone in anger, you’ll hurt your own foot.
Korean Proverb
Anger is one letter short of danger.
Bede Jarrett
Anger ventilated often hurries toward forgiveness; and concealed often hardens into revenge.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.
Will Rogers
Never write a letter while you are angry.
Chinese Proverb
Get mad, then get over it.
Colin Powell
Do not teach your children never to be angry; teach them how to be angry.
Lyman Abbott
Anger blows out the lamp of the mind.
Robert G. Ingersoll
Sometimes when I’m angry I have the right to be angry, but that doesn’t give me the right to be cruel.
Bede Jarrett
Next time you’re mad, try dancing out your anger.
Sweetpea Tyler
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
Never strike your wife – even with a flower.
Hindu Proverb
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
Ambrose Bierce
When angry, count four; when very angry, swear….
Mark Twain
Anger is a bad counselor..
French Proverb
Resentment is an extremely bitter diet, and eventually poisonous. I have no desire to make my own toxins.
Neil Kinnock
The worst-tempered people I’ve ever met were people who knew they were wrong.
Wilson Mizner
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
Not the fastest horse can catch a word spoken in anger.
Chinese Proverb
Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
Albert Einstein
No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.
George Jean Nathan
Anger is short-lived madness.
Horace
To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee.
William H. Walton
When a man sends you an impudent letter, sit right down and give it back to him with interest ten times compounded, and then throw both letters in the wastebasket.
Elbert Hubbard
Spite is never lonely; envy always tags along.
Mignon McLaughlin
At the core of all anger is a need that is not being fulfilled.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
Anger and folly walk cheek by jole.
Benjamin Franklin
There is nothing more galling to angry people than the coolness of those on whom they wish to vent their spleen.
Alexandre Dumas
The only way to truly know a person is to argue with them. For when they argue in full swing, then they reveal their true character.
Anne Frank
There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
Ayn Rand
Evil requires the sanction of the victim.
Ayn Rand
A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.
Bruce Lee
You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.
Buddha
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
In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.
Buddha
When anger rises, think of the consequences.
Confucius
Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little.
Confucius
Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.
Martin Luther King
For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
One should not lose one’s temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.
William Butler Yeats
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
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
You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.
Buddha
People won’t have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.
Stephen Hawking
Speak when you are angry and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.
Laurence J. Peter
I don’t usually lose my temper, but if I get angry, it’s true I’m scary.
Eva Mendes
When anger rises, think of the consequences.
Confucius
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
Maya Angelou
I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.
Booker T. Washington
When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.
Thomas Jefferson
The longer I live, the more I observe that carrying around anger is the most debilitating to the person who bears it.
Katharine Graham
Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
J.R.R. Tolkien
Humor is almost always anger with its makeup on.
Stephen King
The best fighter is never angry.
Lao Tzu
You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger.
Gautama Buddha
Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.
Mahatma Gandhi
To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
Alexander Pope
Sometimes, you have to get angry to get things done.
Ang Lee
The opposite of anger is not calmness, its empathy.
Mehmet Oz
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
Benjamin Franklin
The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
Joseph Joubert
He who angers you conquers you.
Elizabeth Kenny
When a man is wrong and won’t admit it, he always gets angry.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger.
Abraham Cahan
Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Anger is a short madness.
Horace
Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.
Zora Neale Hurston
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
James Thurber
We boil at different degrees.
Clint Eastwood
There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.
Saint Francis De Sales
Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
When I am angry I can pray well and preach well.
Martin Luther King
Hatred is inveterate anger.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them.
James Fallows
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
Marcus Aurelius
Anger cannot be dishonest.
Marcus Aurelius
He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
Sallust
I don’t like anybody to be angry with me. I’d rather have friends.
B. B. King
Every time you get angry, you poison your own system.
Alfred A. Montapert
Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.
William Congreve
When you learn that a truth is a lie, anger follows.
Grace Slick
Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
George William Curtis
Expressing anger is a form of public littering.
Willard Gaylin
I’ve purged myself of bitterness and anger and remained open to love.
Tatum O’neal
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
George Eliot
Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp’s nest.
Pope Paul Vi
Keep cool; anger is not an argument.
Daniel Webster
If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
Sydney J. Harris
The worst tempered people I’ve ever met were people who knew they were wrong.
Wilson Mizner
People are unjust to anger it can be enlivening and a lot of fun.
Philip Roth
I’m too mature to be angry.
Jesse Jackson
I get angry about things, then go on and work.
Toni Morrison
Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.
Beverly Sills
I am a danger to myself if I get angry.
Oriana Fallaci
Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
Thomas De Quincey
A hungry man is an angry one.
Buchi Emecheta
He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.
John Ruskin
Anger is a manifestation of a deeper issue… and that, for me, is based on insecurity, self esteem and loneliness.
Naomi Campbell
Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.
Terry Brooks
Extremism thrives amid ignorance and anger, intimidation and cowardice.
Hillary Clinton
The angry man always thinks he can do more than he can.
Albertano of Brescia
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
Francis Bacon
Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.
Ecclesiastes
Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.
Thomas Fuller
There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.
Patrick Rothfuss
Never anger made good guard for itself.
William Shakespeare
Anger is momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
Horace
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
The sun should not set upon our anger, neither should he rise upon our confidence.
Charles Caleb Colton