Quotes on Anger
I feel an army in my fist.
—Friedrich Schiller
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
—Ambrose Bierce
Anger is short-lived madness.
—Horace
It is wise to direct your anger towards problems—not people, to focus your energies on answers—not excuses.
—William Arthur Ward
Anger is the only thing to put off till tomorrow.
—Czech proverb
If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
—Sydney J. Harris
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
—Benjamin Franklin
You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.
—Buddha
Anger and worry are the most unprofitable conditions known to man. They are like thieves that steal precious time and energy from life. Anger is a highway robber and worry is a sneak thief.
—Horace Fletcher, Menticulture, 1895
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
—Marcus Aurelius
He who angers you conquers you.
—Elizabeth Kenny
Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
—Malachy McCourt
Not the fastest horse can catch a word spoken in anger.
—Chinese Proverb
Count up the days in which you have not been angry. I used to get angry every day, then every other day, then every three or four days. If you manage not to be angry for as long as thirty days offer a sacrifice to the Gods.
—Epictetus, Greek philosopher
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
For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
—Author Unknown
Resentment is an extremely bitter diet, and eventually poisonous. I have no desire to make my own toxins.
—Neil Kinnock
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.
—Baptist Beacon
If you kick a stone in anger, you’ll hurt your own foot.
—Korean Proverb
Before you give someone a piece of your mind, make sure you can get by with what is left.
—Author Unknown
Do not teach your children never to be angry; teach them how to be angry.
—Lyman Abbott
All of the evil passions are traceable to one of two roots. Anger is the root of all the aggressive passions. Worry is the root of all the cowardly passions.... It is not necessary to engage in battle the small army of lesser passions if you concentrate your efforts against anger and worry, for they are all children of these parents.
—Horace Fletcher, Menticulture, 1895
If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape one hundred days of sorrow.
—Chinese proverb
I don’t have to attend every argument I’m invited to.
—Author unknown
Anything done in anger can be done better without it.
—Dallas Willard
Never strike your wife—even with a flower.
—Hindu Proverb
