(932 quotes found)
“When angry, count to four. When very angry, swear.”
Mark Twain
“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
“Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.”
Will Smith
“Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.”
Maya Angelou
“It is wise to direct your anger towards problems -- not people; to focus your energies on answers -- not excuses.”
William Arthur Ward
“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.”
“Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the cruelest words”
Dr. Joyce Brothers
“If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.”
Chinese Proverbs
“Pain in the present is experienced as hurt,pain in the past is remembered as anger.”
Gaelic Proverb
“Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.”
Terry Brooks