1. 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.
2. There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
3. When anger rises, think of the consequences.
4. When anger rises, think of the consequences.
5. I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.
6. 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.
7. If you get down and quarrel everyday, you’re saying prayers to the devil, I say.
8. Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
9. Get mad, then get over it.
10. Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
11. Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.
12. Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
13. When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.
14. Anger cannot be dishonest.
15. When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
16. In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.
17. A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.
18. 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.
19. People won’t have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.
20. How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.
21. Somebody hits me, I’m going to hit him back. Even if it does look like he hasn’t eaten in a while.
22. An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason.
23. I don’t like anybody to be angry with me. I’d rather have friends.
24. There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart.
25. In times of great stress or adversity, it’s always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.
26. Anger is a short madness.
27. My father was often angry when I was most like him.
28. Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy.
29. Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp’s nest.
30. Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.
31. Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.
32. Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts.
33. Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
34. Make sure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night’s sleep, and you can’t settle anything until morning anyway.
35. Speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.
36. Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
37. If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
38. Keep cool; anger is not an argument.
39. Usually when people are sad, they don’t do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.
40. Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.
41. He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
42. Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
43. The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
44. When I am angry I can pray well and preach well.
45. Hatred is inveterate anger.
46. Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.
47. A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.
48. One should not lose one’s temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.
49. Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
50. Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you’re doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.
51. I’m too mature to be angry.
52. I get angry about things, then go on and work.
53. Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
54. A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.
55. Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
56. Don’t get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.
57. To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
58. I get angry at a principle, not a person.
59. Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.
60. He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.
