ANGER QUOTES
Try to memorize some of these anger quotes and repeat them when you are tempted to respond inappropriately in the anger provoking situations.
"For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness" (Ralph Waldo Emerson).
"No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched" (George Jean Nathan).
"Anger is short-lived madness" (Horace).
"Anger blows out the lamp of the mind" (Robert G. Ingersoll).
"Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret" (Ambrose Bierce).
"When anger rises, think of the consequences" (Confucius).
"Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame" (Benjamin Franklin).
"If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow" (Chinese Proverbs).
"So long as a man is angry he cannot be in the right" (Chinese Proverbs).
"If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?" (Sydney J. Harris).
"There is nothing more galling to angry people than the coolness of those on whom they wish to vent their spleen" (Alexander Dumas).
"Anger ventilated often hurries toward forgiveness; and concealed often hardens into revenge" (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton).
"Get mad, then get over it" (Colin Powell).
"Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die" (Malachy McCourt).
"Do not teach your children never to be angry; teach them how to be angry" (Lyman Abbott).
"Next time you're mad, try dancing out your anger" (Sweetpea Tyler).
"Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them" (James Fallows).
"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 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'Armour).
"Resentment is an extremely bitter diet, and eventually poisonous. I have no desire to make my own toxins" (Neil Kinnock).
"The worst-tempered people I've ever met were people who knew they were wrong" (Wilson Mizner).
"The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk" (Jacqueline Schiff).
"Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one" (Benjamin Franklin).
"There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot" (Plato).
"Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world" (William Shenstone).
"The angry people are those people who are most afraid" (Dr. Robert Anthony).
"Anyone can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person at the right time, and for the right purpose and in the right way – that is not within everyone's power and that is not easy" (Aristotle).
"When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger" (Epictetus).
"Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it" (Seneca).
"Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the cruelest words" (Dr. Joyce Brothers).
"Flying off the handle sometimes causes hammers and humans to lose their heads, as well as their effectiveness" (William Arthur Ward).
