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Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
Maya Angelou on anger

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.
Buddha on anger

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on anger

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.
Mahatma Gandhi on anger

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
Ambrose Bierce on anger

When angry, count to four when very angry, swear.
Mark Twain on anger

When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.
Thomas Jefferson on anger

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
Mahatma Gandhi on anger

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
Benjamin Franklin on anger

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.
James Russell Lowell on anger

When anger rises, think of the consequences.
Confucius on anger

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
Christopher Morley on anger

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 on anger

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 on anger

Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.
Richard M. Nixon on anger

Get mad, then get over it.
Colin Powell on anger

He who angers you conquers you.
Elizabeth Kenny on anger

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
William Congreve on anger

Beware of him that is slow to anger for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.
Francis Quarles on anger

Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
Phyllis Diller on anger