Quotes and sayings on anger

He who angers you conquers you.
Elizabeth Kenny

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.
Cherie Carter-Scott

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.
Joan Lunden

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.
Buddha

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.
Eric Hoffer

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.
John Dryden

The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed develops into habit. And the habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care. And let it spring from love, born out of concern for all beings.
Buddha

Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
Buddha

We boil at different degrees.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.
Mario Puzo

The degree of one's emotion varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts: the less you know the hotter you get.
Bertrand Russell

When anger rises, think of the consequences.
Confucius

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 a Kempis

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?
Khalil Gibran

When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.
Thomas Jefferson

Anger always comes from frustrated expectations.
Elliott Larson

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
Chinese Proverb

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
Seneca