
Angry people are not always wise.-Jane Austen

Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy.-Roy T. Bennett

The best fighter is never angry.-Lao Tzu

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

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.-Ambrose Bierce

When angry, count four. When very angry, swear.-Mark Twain

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

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.-Malcolm X

A heart filled with anger has no room for love.-Joan Lunde

It is wise to direct your anger towards problems -- not people; to focus your energies on answers -- not excuses.-William Arthur Ward

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

Conquer the angry one by not getting angry; conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by generosity, and the liar by speaking the truth.-Gautama Buddha

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.-Plato

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.-Leo Buscaglia

Anger is stupid, and stupidity will kill you more surely than your opponent's blade.-Patricia Briggs

The harder you fall, the heavier your heart; the heavier your heart, the stronger you climb; the stronger you climb, the higher your pedestal.-Criss Jami

Sensitive people usually love deeply and hate deeply. They don't know any other way to live than by extremes because thier emotional theromastat is broken.-Shannon L. Alder

If you try to get rid of fear and anger without knowing their meaning, they will grow stronger and return.-Deepak Chopra

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you are.-Cherie Carter-Scott

If you hate a person, then you’re defeated by them.-Confucius

Anger makes us feel so isolated.-Fred Rogers

A wise man looks for everything inside of himself; a madman seeks for everything in others.-Leo Tolstoy

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger. -Buddha

An action committed in anger is an action doomed to failure.-Genghis Khan

One’s anger is one’s greatest enemy and one’s calmness is one’s protection.-Sathya Sai Baba

Another person will not hurt you without your cooperation. You are hurt the moment you believe yourself to be.-Epictetus

Shouting something didn’t make it any more possible.-Susan Sontag

It doesn’t hurt me unless I interpret it’s happening as harmful to me. I can choose not to.-Marcus Aurelius

No one heals himself by wounding another.-Ambrose

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.-Carl Jung

The instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.-Buddhist proverb

Friendly reminder. If you ever lose your temper it is your fault. Always. Your emotional responses are never the responsibility of any other human being.-Thibaut

Everyone asks how to deal with anger when it arises. No one asks how to prevent anger from arising.-James Pierce

So other people hurt me? That’s their problem. Their character and actions are not mine. -Marcus Aurelius

A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.-Winston Churchill

Delay gratification. Don’t give your ego the satisfaction of a scream.-Maxime Lagacé

We can’t control what people say, but we do have a say in how we react. Refusing to give others power over our feelings is a mark of emotional intelligence.-Adam Grant

If we could learn to like ourselves, even a little, maybe our cruelties and angers might melt away.-John Steinbeck

A person does not react to the insult. He reacts to what the insult makes him feel about himself.-Kapil Gupta

I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.-Booker T. Washington