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A Selection of Anger Quotes - I hope you enjoy them. Shelton
- 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, that is not easy. [Aristotle 320BC]
- When angry count to four; when very angry, swear. [Mark Twain]
- 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]
- Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. [Benjamin Franklin]
- How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. [Marcus Aurelius]
- He who angers you conquers you. [Elizabeth Kenny]
- 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 Aburned. [Buddha]
- 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 a Kempis]
- 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. [William Blake]
- Anger is a state that starts with madness and ends with regret. [A Poison Tree]
- Anger is a state that starts with madness and ends with regrets - a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind. [Robert Ingersoll]
- A man is about as big as the things that make him angry [Winston Churchill]
- For every minute you are angry you lose 60 seconds of happiness [Ralph Waldo Emerson]
- For every minute you are angry you give up 60 seconds of peace of mind. [Ralph Waldo Emerson]
- Speak when you are angry - and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret [Dr Laurence J Peter]
- Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools [Albert Einstein]
- Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one. [Benjamin Franklin]
- In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving
for ourselves. [Abraham J Heschel]
- When anger rises, think of the consequences. [Confucius]
- Anyone who angers you, conquers you. [Elizabeth Kenny]
- You should make a woman angry if you wish her to love [Pubilius Syrus 1BC]
- There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help and what they cannot. [Plato]
- It is wise to direct your anger towards problems, not people; to focus your energies on answer, not
excuses [William Arthur Ward]
- In the beginning the Universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a
bad move [Douglas Adams]
- Anger always comes from frustrated expectations. [Elliott Larson]
- Anger is only a natural reaction; on of the mind’s ways of reacting to things that it perceives to be wrong.
While anger can sometimes lead people to do shocking things, it can also be an instinct to show people that something isn’t right. [??]
- Anger is only one letter short of Danger. [??]
- He is a fool who cannot be angry; but he is a wise man who will not. [??]
- Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world. [William Shenstone]
- The angry people are those people who are most afraid. [Dr Robert Anthony]
- I know of no more disagreeable sensation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular
to be angry at. [Frank Moore Colby]
- When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget
your anger. [Epictetus AD120]
- Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness. [James Thurber]
- Anger is not bad. Anger can be a very positive thing, the thing that moves up beyond the acceptance of evil. [Joan Chittester]
- The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn’t angry enough. [Bede Jarrett]
- The truth shall make you free, but first it shall make you angry. [??]
- Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go
near the gods. [Confucius]
- If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. [Chinese proverb]
- Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it. [Seneca]
- Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when
you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough. [William Saroyan]
- So long as a man is angry he can never be in the right. [Chinese proverb]
- A woman can hide her love for 40 years, but her disgust and anger not for one day. [Arab proverb]
- How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. [Marcus Aurelius]
- The best answer to anger is silence. [??]
- Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the cruelest words. [Dr Joyce Brothers]
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