Acceptance of others, their looks, their behaviors, their beliefs, brings you an inner peace and tranquillity instead of anger and resentment.
—Anonymous
Of the seven deadly sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and the pain you are giving back- in many ways it is a feast fit for a king. The chief drawback is that what you are wolfing down is yourself. The skeleton at the feast is you.
—Frederick Buechner (b.1926) American Presbyterian Clergyman, Novelist, Short Story Writer, Essayist, Theologian
The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
—Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) (c.4 BCE–65 CE) Roman Stoic Philosopher, Statesman, Tragedian
Anger is a symptom, a way of cloaking and expressing feelings too awful to experience directly—hurt, bitterness, grief, and, mostof all, fear.
—Joan Rivers (1933–2014) American Comedienne, Writer
A soft answer truth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger.
—The Holy Bible Scripture in the Christian Faith
All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.
—T. E. Lawrence (1888–1935) British Soldier, Scholar, Writer
When one is in a good sound rage, it is astonishing how calm one can be.
—Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton (1803–73) British Novelist, Poet, Politician
I don’t have to attend every argument I’m invited to.
—Unknown
Keep cool; anger is not an argument.
—Daniel Webster (1782–1852) American Statesman, Lawyer
We, the lineal representatives of the successful enactors of one scene of slaughter after another, must, whatever more pacific virtues we may also possess, still carry about with us, ready at any moment to burst into flame, the smoldering and sinister traits of character by means of which they lived through so many massacres, harming others, but themselves unharmed.
—William James (1842–1910) American Philosopher, Psychologist, Physician
A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.
—The Holy Bible Scripture in the Christian Faith
Meanness is incurable; it cannot be cured by old age, or by anything else.
—Aristotle (384BCE–322BCE) Ancient Greek Philosopher, Scholar
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 Aurelius (121–180) Emperor of Rome, Stoic Philosopher
Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.
—William Penn (1644–1718) American Entrepreneur, Political leader, Philosopher
He who conquers his anger has conquered an enemy
—German Proverb
Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869–1948) Indian Hindu Political leader
Great anger is more destructive than the sword.
—Indian Proverb
Anger profiteth nobody.
—The Talmud Sacred Text of the Jewish Faith
Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours.
—Frank Moore Colby (1865–1925) American Encyclopedia Editor, Essayist
Whate’er’s begun in anger ends in shame.
—Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) American Political Leader, Inventor, Diplomat
Never strike your wife – even with a flower.
—Indian Proverb
Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time. Hatred ceases through love. This is an unalterable law.
—Buddhist Teaching
Life is but short; no time can be afforded but for the indulgence of real sorry, or contests upon questions seriously momentous. Let us not throw away any of our days upon useless resentment, or contend who shall hold out longest in stubborn malignity. It is best not to be angry; and best, in the next place, to be quickly reconciled.
—Samuel Johnson (1709–84) British Essayist
The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.
—Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) (c.4 BCE–65 CE) Roman Stoic Philosopher, Statesman, Tragedian
When you’re in the right, you can afford to keep your temper. When in the wrong, you can’t afford to lose it.
—Unknown
To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744) English Poet
Reproach is infinite, and knows no end So voluble a weapon is the tongue; Wounded, we wound; and neither side can fail For every man has equal strength to rail.
—Homer (751–651 BCE) Ancient Greek Poet
Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp’s nest.
—Common Proverb
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’Amour (1908–88) American Novelist, Short-story Writer
A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.
—Charles Spurgeon (1834–92) English Baptist Preacher
To him who curbs his wrath, his sins will be forgiven.
—The Talmud Sacred Text of the Jewish Faith
Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.
—Bertrand A. Russell (1872–1970) British Philosopher, Mathematician, Social Critic
Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind.
—Juvenal (c.60–c.136 CE) Roman Poet
The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
—Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864) English Writer, Poet
The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.
—The Holy Bible Scripture in the Christian Faith
Any one can get angry — that is easy — or give or spend money; but to do this to the right person, to the right extent, at the right time, with the right motive, and in the right way, that is not for every one, nor is it easy.
—Aristotle (384BCE–322BCE) Ancient Greek Philosopher, Scholar
A wave of anger washed over me, anger against myself, at my age at the time, that stupid lyrically age, when a man is too great a riddle to himself to be interested in the riddles outside himself and when other people are mere walking mirrors in which he is amazed to find his own emotions, his own worth.
—Milan Kundera (b.1929) Czech Novelist
There is nothing more galling to angry people than the coolness of those on whom they wish to vent their spleen.
—Alexandre Dumas pere (1802–1870) French Novelist, Playwright
There is another man within me that’s angry with me.
—Thomas Browne (1605–82) English Author, Physician
The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.
—John Ruskin (1819–1900) English Writer, Art Critic
By unlinking your money motivation from anger, fear, and the need to prove yourself, you can install new links for earning your money through purpose, contribution, and joy.
—T. Harv Eker (b.1954) American Motivational Speaker, Lecturer, Author
Anger is short madness
—Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) (65–8 BCE) Roman Poet
Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.
—Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) (c.4 BCE–65 CE) Roman Stoic Philosopher, Statesman, Tragedian
Anger, which, far sweeter than trickling drops of honey, rises in the bosom of a man like smoke.
—Homer (751–651 BCE) Ancient Greek Poet
Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, everyone should be serene, slow-pulsed and calm.
—Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–99) American Lawyer, Orator, Agnostic
Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.
—The Holy Bible Scripture in the Christian Faith
Life is too short to hold a grudge, also too long.
—Robert Brault
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English Philosopher
Anger wishes that all mankind had only one neck; love, that it had only one heart; grief, two tear-glands; and pride, two bent knees.
—Jean Paul (1763–1825) German Novelist, Humorist
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
—George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans) (1819–80) English Novelist