93+ Quotes on Anger (Understanding & Overcoming It)
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
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.
There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
He who has conquered anger has achieved a great victory in life.
When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
It’s a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it s to be angry with a car that won’t go.
When anger walks it is strongest; let it rest and it gets weak.
An angry man is again angry with himself, when he returns to reason.
Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.
If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
He who angers you conquers you.
In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.
There is nothing more galling to angry people than the coolness of those on whom they wish to vent their spleen.
Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.
Cultivate a heart of love that knows no anger.
It's my rule never to lose me temper till it would be detrimental to keep it.
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
It is wise to direct your anger towards problems, not people; to focus your energies on answers, not excuses.
I was angry with my friend:
I told my wrath, my wrath did end.
I was angry with my foe;
I told it not, my wrath did grow.
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.
Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.
When we are angry, our anger is our very self. To suppress or chase away our anger is to suppress or chase away ourselves. When anger is born, we can be aware that anger is an energy in us, and we can change that energy into another kind of energy. If we want to transform it, first we have to know how to accept it.
Hatred is the anger of the weak.
An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.
Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.
Beware the fury of a patient man.
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.
Do not be angry with me if I tell you the truth.
In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
When angry, count to four. When very angry, swear.
The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.
It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the poser to choose either.
Be angry, but sin not. Let not the sun go down upon your anger. Anger must be limited and confined, both in race and in time.
The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.
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.
A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.
Anger is short-lived madness.
No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.
One who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger.
Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.
Anger always comes from frustrated expectations.
Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
Once you try to control or discipline your anger, then eventually even big events will not cause anger.
Speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.
When angry, a man has deserted his body.
Anger is only one letter short of danger.
To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee.
If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit give it nothing which may tend to its increase.
Two things a man should never be angry at: What he can help, and what he cannot help.
A fool gives full vent to his anger, but a wise man keeps himself under control.
No man is ever made braver through anger, except the one who would never have been brave without anger. It comes, then, not as a help to virtue, but as a substitute for it. And is it not true that if anger were a good, it would come naturally to those who are the most perfect? But the fact is, children, old men, and the sick are most prone to anger, and weakness of any sort is by nature captious.
The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
Anger is a wound gone mad.
The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are for loving in the present.
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.
Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
Where two discourse, if the one’s anger rise, the man who lets the contest fall is wise.
In times of great stress of adversity, it’s always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.
A man is measured by the size of things that anger him
Hatred is settled anger.
Anger is often more hurtful than the injury that caused it.
Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the cruelest words.
Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
If you are irritated by every rub, how will you be polished?
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.
Tis hard to fight with anger, but the prudent man keeps it under control.
Anger as soon as fed is dead
Tis starving makes it fat.
Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
At the core of all anger is a need that is not being fulfilled.
Anger blows out the lamp of the mind.
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.
A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.
If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.
A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.
Never write a letter while you are angry.
Anger is a bad counsellor.
When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly.
Anger is momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
A woman can hide her love for 40 years, but her disgust and anger not for one day.
Anger is natural. It’s part of the force. You just have to learn to hang out with it.
If you kick a stone in anger, you’ll hurt your own foot.
Anger ventilated often hurries toward forgiveness; and concealed often hardens into revenge.
When anger rises, think of the consequences.
Anger is just a cowardly extension of sadness. It's a lot easier to be angry at someone than it is to tell them you're hurt.
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 harms we do, we do to ourselves.
Not the fastest horse can catch a word spoken in anger.
Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.
When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.
