Anger Quotes

"Experts say you should never hit your children in anger. When is a good time? When you're feeling festive?" Roseanne Barr

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

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

"Anger is one of the sinews of the soul." Thomas Fuller

"Anger is a short madness." Horace

"An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes." Cato

"In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together." Margaret J. Wheatley

"When you start suppressing feelings at an early age, it hurts you down the road. Full expression of anger and pain is very important." Andrew Shue

"We are looking for happiness and running after it in such a way that creates anger, fear and discrimination. So when you attend a retreat, you have a chance to look at the deep roots of this pollution of the collective energy that is unwholesome." Nhat Hanh

"You have to be sincere in your feelings. And fear is one of those, sometimes; doubt is one of those; jealousy, anger - all your emotions are not going to be considered the strong emotions; all of them are not going to be love, happiness, joy." Common

"We're taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they're of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration." Alanis Morissette

"It is a lie that our anger justifies our impulse to hurt or ignore our antagonists. We are to forgive to be forgiven. To wait for them to repent before we forgive and repent is to allow them to choose for us a delay which could cost us happiness here and hereafter." Henry B. Eyring

"Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it's on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you've got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration." Taylor Swift

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

"Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them." James Fallows

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

"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

"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

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

"Expressing anger is a form of public littering." Willard Gaylin

"Every time you get angry, you poison your own system." Alfred A. Montapert

"Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be." Thomas Kempis

"Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor." Francis Bacon

"Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind." Robert Green Ingersoll

"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

"Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools." Albert Einstein

"Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love." George Eliot

"Did I offer peace today? Did I bring a smile to someone's face? Did I say words of healing? Did I let go of my anger and resentment? Did I forgive? Did I love?' These are the real questions. I must trust that the little bit of love that I sow now will be many fruits, here in this world and the life to come." Henri Nouwen

"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

"A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green." Francis Bacon