Anger Quotes

“Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.” James Thurber

 

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

 

“I am angry nearly every day of my life, but I have learned not to show it; and I still try to hope not to feel it, though it may take me another forty years to do it.” Louisa May Alcott

 

“How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.” Marcus Aurelius

 

“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

 

“Flying off the handle sometimes causes hammers and humans to lose their heads, as well as their effectiveness.” William Arthur Ward

“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, that is not easy.” Aristotle

 

“He who angers you conquers you.” Elizabeth Kenny

 

“My mother used to say, “He who angers you, conquers you!” But my mother was a saint.” Elizabeth Kenny

 

“Reckon the days in which you have not been angry. I used to be angry every day; now every other day; then every third and fourth day; and if you miss it so long as thirty days, offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to God.” Epictetus

 

“The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant toward others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves.” Eric Hoffer