Anger Quotes for Anger Management
Quotes about anger can be beneficial for building insight. Anger is something that can be difficult to manage, and everyone has the capability to be angry. It is part of being a human. Anger has been challenging humans since the beginning of time, and humans have struggled to keep anger from controlling them. The history and commonalities of these quotes demonstrates all of this.
Some anger quotes are about controlling anger and others serve as a warning to the destructive nature of anger. Some included below also are related to controlling anger by seeking context and thinking rationally.
Some anger quotes are about controlling anger and others serve as a warning to the destructive nature of anger. Some included below also are related to controlling anger by seeking context and thinking rationally.
There was never an angry man that thought 
"Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned." -Buddha
Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge. 
"There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot." -Plato
The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him. Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved. When passion is on the throne reason is out the doors. |
"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 what makes a clear mind seem 
"If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow." -Chinese Proverb
Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed. -Clarendon Beware of the fury of a patient man. When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, count a hundred. Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it. |
People who fly into a rage always make a bad 
"For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves. -Pope When anger rushes, unrestrained, to action, like a hot steed, it stumbles in its way. 
"Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love." -Leo Buscaglia
There is not in nature a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger. An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason. |
"A man can't eat anger for breakfast and sleep with it at night and not suffer damage to his soul." -Garrison Keillor
Speak when you are angry and you will make 
"He who angers you conquers you." -Elizabeth Kenny
The greatest remedy for anger is delay. -Seneca Keep cool and you command everybody. When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life. Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute. When anger rises, think of the consequences. |