anger
Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out and when it does come, it is out again immediately.
3 thoughts from Edward Everett Hale
When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.
70 wisdom & wit from Thomas Jefferson
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
41 sayings from Marcus Aurelius
Anger cannot be dishonest.
41 more quotes from Marcus Aurelius
He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
10 more quotes from B. C. Forbes
For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
135 thoughts from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Anger is a good motivator.
22 wisdom & wit from James Dyson
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
15 wisdom & wit from Christopher Morley
One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.
28 wisdom & wit from William Butler Yeats
Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger.
6 sayings from Abraham Cahan
The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.
17 quotes from John Dryden
Guilt is anger directed at ourselves - at what we did or did not do. Resentment is anger directed at others - at what they did or did not do.
4 more views from Peter McWilliams
Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.
21 more views from Laurence J. Peter
Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.
7 quotes from Pope Paul VI
If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
13 other wisdom & wit from Sydney J. Harris
He who angers you conquers you.
2 sayings from Elizabeth Kenny
He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will never be a good actor.
6 views from Sarah Bernhardt
The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.
2 other wisdom & wit from James Whitcomb Riley
Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
100 more quotes from Mahatma Gandhi
How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.
8 quotes from Frank Herbert
Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
100 more quotes from Mahatma Gandhi
Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.
100 more views from Mahatma Gandhi
When angry, count to four when very angry, swear.
98 thoughts from Mark Twain
Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.
5 thoughts from Indira Gandhi
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
52 sayings from George Eliot
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.
98 more wisdom & wit from Mark Twain
Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.
8 quotes from William Shenstone
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
14 other sayings from James Thurber
Keep your temper. A decision made in anger is never sound.
2 other wisdom & wit from Ford Frick
There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart.
45 other views from Thomas Fuller
The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
9 thoughts from Walter Savage Landor
To rule one's anger is well to prevent it is better.
8 quotes from Tryon Edwards
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
96 quotes from Benjamin Franklin
Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.
10 quotes from William Congreve
All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.
9 other views from Gaius Sallustius Crispus
Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.
10 quotes from Edward Abbey
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
12 quotes from Thomas a Kempis
Keep cool anger is not an argument.
12 sayings from Daniel Webster
Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.
96 views from Benjamin Franklin
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
67 quotes from Francis Bacon
Do not follow vain desires for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.
21 more views from Abu Bakr
Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
5 other thoughts from J. R. R. Tolkien
Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.
2 more quotes from Nagarjuna
Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.
12 thoughts from Zora Neale Hurston
A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.
67 quotes from Francis Bacon
Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.
45 wisdom & wit from Thomas Fuller
Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
10 more thoughts from William Congreve
All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
9 more sayings from Gaius Sallustius Crispus
I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.
3 quotes from Frank Moore Colby
It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people to focus your energies on answers - not excuses.
14 quotes from William Arthur Ward
No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.
12 other sayings from George Jean Nathan
He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.
45 views from John Ruskin
Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
3 more thoughts from G. M. Trevelyan
Hatred is an affair of the heart contempt that of the head.
29 sayings from Arthur Schopenhauer
Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
6 other quotes from George William Curtis
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.
24 views from James Russell Lowell
Discussion is an exchange of knowledge an argument an exchange of ignorance.
2 sayings from Robert Quillen
Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
105 more quotes from Albert Einstein