Quotations about Anger

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


There is nothing more galling to angry people than the coolness of those on whom they wish to vent their spleen.  ~Alexandre Dumas


Life is too short to hold a grudge, also too long.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


He who angers you conquers you.  ~Elizabeth Kenny


For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.  ~Author Unknown


Anger is one letter short of danger.  ~Author Unknown


Anger ventilated often hurries toward forgiveness; and concealed often hardens into revenge.  ~Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton


People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.  ~Will Rogers


Never write a letter while you are angry.  ~Chinese Proverb


Get mad, then get over it.  ~Colin Powell


The world needs anger.  The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough.  ~Bede Jarrett


Never go to bed mad.  Stay up and fight.  ~Phyllis Diller, Phyllis Diller's Housekeeping Hints, 1966


Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.  ~Eckhart Tolle


In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer.  ~Mark Twain


Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.  ~Malachy McCourt


Take no revenge that you have not pondered beneath a starry sky, or on a canyon overlook, or to the lapping of waves and the mewing of a distant gull.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


If you kick a stone in anger, you'll hurt your own foot.  ~Korean Proverb


Anger as soon as fed is dead -
'Tis starving makes it fat.
~Emily Dickinson


Not the fastest horse can catch a word spoken in anger.  ~Chinese Proverb


Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.  ~Albert Einstein


No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.  ~George Jean Nathan


Anger is short-lived madness.  ~Horace


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


Before you give someone a piece of your mind, make sure you can get by with what is left.  ~Author Unknown


If you're angry at a loved one, hug that person.  And mean it.  You may not want to hug - which is all the more reason to do so.  It's hard to stay angry when someone shows they love you, and that's precisely what happens when we hug each other.  ~Walter Anderson, The Confidence Course, 1997


Do not teach your children never to be angry; teach them how to be angry.  ~Lyman Abbott


Anger blows out the lamp of the mind.  ~Robert G. Ingersoll


Get angry, get furious but never crumble to resentment.  ~Dodinsky, www.dodinsky.com


Sometimes when I'm angry I have the right to be angry, but that doesn't give me the right to be cruel.  ~Author Unknown


Spite is never lonely; envy always tags along.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


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


At the core of all anger is a need that is not being fulfilled.  ~Marshall B. Rosenberg


Anger and folly walk cheek by jole.  ~Benjamin Franklin


Temper tantrums, however fun they may be to throw, rarely solve whatever problem is causing them.  ~Lemony Snicket


If you get upset when the toast burns, what are you going to do when your house burns down?  ~Author Unknown


I don't have to attend every argument I'm invited to.  ~Author Unknown


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


Malice drinks one-half of its own poison.  ~Seneca


Can anger survive without his hypocrisy? ~Terri Guillemets


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'Armour


Never strike your wife - even with a flower.  ~Hindu Proverb


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, Pudd'nhead Wilson, 1894


Anger is a bad counselor.  ~French Proverb


Resentment is an extremely bitter diet, and eventually poisonous.  I have no desire to make my own toxins.  ~Neil Kinnock


The worst-tempered people I've ever met were people who knew they were wrong.  ~Wilson Mizner


To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee.  ~William H. Walton


Two things a man should never be angry at: What he can help, and what he cannot help.  ~Thomas Fuller


The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.  ~Jacqueline Schiff


Next time you're mad, try dancing out your anger. ~Terri Guillemets


When a man sends you an impudent letter, sit right down and give it back to him with interest ten times compounded, and then throw both letters in the wastebasket.  ~Elbert Hubbard


Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.  ~Marcus Antonius

0 comments:

Post a Comment

Copyright © Kata-Kata Mutiara