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Top 50 Anger Quotes
1. “When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.” – Thomas Jefferson
2. “Getting angry doesn’t solve anything.” – Grace Kelly
3. “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
4. “I believe anger is a wasted emotion, and I don’t like to waste emotions.” – Jim Webb
5. “Every time you get angry, you poison your own system.” – Alfred A. Montapert
6. “Anger does not solve problems – anger only makes things worse. I go by the old saying, ‘Don’t make important decisions when you’re angry.” – Lionel Sosa
7. “He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.” – Sallust
8. “Anger is an unnecessary emotion. Loads of stuff in life can trigger it, but what matters is how you react. I choose not to react.” – Nicola Adams
9. “When anger rises, think of the consequences.” – Confucius
10. “Anger becomes limiting, restricting. You can’t see through it. While anger is there, look at that, too. But after a while, you have to look at something else.” – Thylias Moss
11. “If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.” – Chinese Proverb
12. “People won’t have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.” – Stephen Hawking
13. “Keep your temper. A decision made in anger is never sound.” – Ford Frick
14. “When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.” – Mark Twain
15. “Anger’s not a good emotion.” – Lincoln Chafees
16. “Expressing anger is a form of public littering.” – Willard Gaylin
17. “Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.” – G. M. Trevelyan
18. “Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.” – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
19. “Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.” – William Congreve
20. “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
21. “Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.” – Mahatma Gandhi
22. “Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.” – George William Curtis
23. “I get angry about things, then go on and work.” – Toni Morrison
24. “It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.” – Wayne Dyer
25. “There’s nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.” – Wayne Dyer
26. “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
27. “Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.” – Mark Twain
28. “For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
29. “My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world.” – Jack Layton
30. “Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.” – Robert Green Ingersoll
31. “You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.” – Buddha”
32. “One of man’s greatest obligations is anger.” – Nikos Kazantzakis
33. “There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.” – Plato
34. “Anger is a short madness.” – Horace
35. “I don’t usually lose my temper, but if I get angry, it’s true – I’m scary.” – Eva Mendes
36. “Anger… it’s a paralyzing emotion. You can’t get anything done.” – Toni Morrison
37. “Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.” – Ambrose Bierce
38. “If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?” – Sydney J. Harris
39. “Not the fastest horse can catch a word spoken in anger.” – Chinese Proverb
40. “Something my mum taught me years and years and years ago, is life’s just too short to carry around a great bucket-load of anger and resentment and bitterness and hatreds and all that sort of stuff.” – Kevin Rudd
41. “To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.” – Alexander Pope
42. “Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.” – Beverly Sills
43. “Americans are slow to anger, but once they do get angry, they are impossible to stop.” – Kathleen Troia McFarland
44. “Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger.” – Abraham Cahan
45. “Anger is what makes a clear mind seem clouded.” – Kazi Shams
46. “It is wise to direct your anger towards problems – not people; to focus your energies on answers – not excuses.” – William Arthur Ward
47. “Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.” – Baltasar Gracian
48. “Anger is often more hurtful than the injury that caused it.”
49. “Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.” – Benjamin Franklin
50. “A hand ready to hit, may cause you great trouble.”
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