“For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.” — Buddha
“Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.” — Benjamin Franklin
“The best fighter is never angry.” — Lao Tzu
“Speak when you are angry, and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.” — Ambrose Bierce
“Anger is a short madness.” — Horace
“People won’t have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.” — Stephen Hawking
“Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.” — Eckhart Tolle
“Get mad, then get over it.” — Colin Powell
“Never go to bed angry; stay up and fight.” — Phyllis Diller
“Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.” — Mahatma Gandhi
“Anybody can become angry—that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way—that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.” — Aristotle
“Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath.” — Thich Nhat Hanh
“A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.” — Bruce Lee
“You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger.” — Buddha
“Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.” — Mahatma Gandhi
“The greatest remedy for anger is delay.” — Thomas Paine
“In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for the truth and have begun striving for ourselves.” — Buddha
“When anger rises, think of the consequences.” — Confucius
“Don’t hold to anger, hurt, or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.” — Leo Buscaglia
“Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.” — Albert Einstein
“He who angers you conquers you.” — Elizabeth Kenny
“Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.” — Robert Green Ingersoll
“Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.” — Maya Angelou
“If you kick a stone in anger, you’ll hurt your own foot.” — Korean Proverb
“Anger is a valid emotion. It’s only bad when it takes control and makes you do things you don’t want to do.” — Ellen Hopkins
“Not the fastest horse can catch a word spoken in anger.” — Chinese Proverb
“Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.” — Baltasar Gracian
“A heart filled with anger has no room for love.” — Joan Lunden
“It is wise to direct your anger towards problems—not people; to focus your energies on answers—not excuses.” — William Arthur Ward
“To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.” — Alexander Pope
“There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.” — Plato
“When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.” — Thomas Jefferson
“The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.” — Barbara De Angelis
“Anger is often more hurtful than the injury that caused it.” — English Proverb
“Do not let anger lead to hatred, as you will hurt yourself more than you would the other.” — Unknown
“No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.” — George Jean Nathan
“Anger is the ultimate destroyer of your own peace.” — Dalai Lama
“Holding onto anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.” — Buddha
“When you let anger get the best of you, it brings out the worst in you.” — Unknown
“How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.” — Marcus Aurelius
“When you are angry, be silent.” — Pythagoras
“Anger begins with folly and ends with regret.” — Beverly Sills
“Speak when you’re angry, and you’ll give the best speech you’ll ever regret.” — Laurence J. Peter
“Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.” — Saint Augustine
“The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life.” — Samurai Proverb
“Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.” — Horace
“It is he who is in the wrong who first gets angry.” — William Penn
“The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens into a memory as the years pass.” — Seneca
“Anger is acid. It does more harm to the vessel in which it’s stored than to anything on which it’s poured.” — Unknown