Anger quotes
931 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"Every time there are losses, there are choices to be made. You choose to live your losses as passages to anger, blame, hatred, depression and resentment, or you choose to let these losses be passages to something new, something wider, and deeper."
"Our anger and annoyance are more detrimental to us than the things themselves which anger or annoy us."
"In anger we should refrain both from speech and action."
"Any person capable of angering you becomes your master."
"Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others' faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the Earth for modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you appear."
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"People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice."
"People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining."
"When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out, because that's what's inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside."
"There's a natural law of karma that vindictive people, who go out of their way to hurt others, will end up broke and alone."
"A moment of anger can destroy a lifetime of work, whereas a moment of love can break barriers that took a lifetime to build."
"The most complete revenge is not to imitate the aggressor."
"It's time we stop worrying, and get angry you know? But not angry and pick up a gun, but angry and open our minds."
"Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap."
"Out of anger comes controversy, out of controversy comes conversation, out of conversation comes action."
"If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?"
"A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use."
"The way to change others' minds is with affection, and not anger."
"Anger is an integrity-producing response to the invasion of your personal boundaries."
"From the backstabbing co-worker to the meddling sister-in-law, you are in charge of how you react to the people and events in your life. You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead. Take control and choose to focus on what is important in your life. Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life."
"Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems."
"Why is it that the uneducated minds always criticize the brilliant minds?"
"The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk."
"It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say."
"A man is about as big as the things that make him angry."
"Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean."
