Quotes

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

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

Expressing anger is a form of public littering.
Willard Gaylin

Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts.
Ovid

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Get mad, then get over it.
Colin Powell

He who angers you conquers you.
Elizabeth Kenny

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
William Congreve

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

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
Marcus Aurelius

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
Sydney J. Harris

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

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.
Mohandas Gandhi

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

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
Albert Einstein

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 is a short madness.
Horace

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

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

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