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.Gautama Buddha
Anger Quotes
These 27 quotes on anger come straight from the QuotePlace collection — lines by poets, philosophers, leaders and artists across the centuries. Open any card to read the quote on its own page and meet the author behind it.
The best fighter is never angry.Lao Tzu
Resentment and complaint are appropriate neither for oneself nor others.Miyamoto Musashi
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.Charles Dickens
When anger rises, think of the consequences.Confucius
Conquer anger with non-anger. Conquer badness with goodness. Conquer meanness with generosity.Gautama Buddha
Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.Dylan Thomas
Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.Gautama Buddha
The greatest remedy for anger is delay.Seneca
Rainbows apologize for angry skies.Sylvia Voirol
More often than not, anger is actually an indication of weakness rather than of strength.Dalai Lama
You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.Gautama Buddha
In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.Gautama Buddha
If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape one hundred days of sorrow.Chinese proverb
When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.Epictetus
Being angry never solves anything.Catherine Pulsifer
The greatest obstacle to connecting with our joy is resentment.Pema Chodron
When anger use your energy to do something productive.C. Pulsifer
The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.Elbert Hubbard
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.Ambrose Bierce
If you kick a stone in anger, you'll hurt your own foot.Korean proverb
So is cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more remains.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.Thomas Kempis
I am not angry with you, O life; I am only bewildered by you.Gulzar
Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.Epictetus
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.Marcus Aurelius
Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that caused it.Seneca