•“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

•“To be angry is to yield to the influence of Satan. No one can make us angry. It is our choice. If we desire to have a proper spirit with us at all times, we must choose to refrain from becoming angry. I testify that such is possible.” 
― Thomas S. Monson

•“Anger is a valid emotion. It's only bad when it takes control and makes you do things you don't want to do.” 
― Ellen Hopkins

•“Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.” 
― Leo Buscaglia

•“If you try to get rid of fear and anger without knowing their meaning, they will grow stronger and return.” 
― Deepak Chopra

•“Let today be the day you stop being haunted by the ghost of yesterday. Holding a grudge & harboring anger/resentment is poison to the soul. Get even with people...but not those who have hurt us, forget them, instead get even with those who have helped us.” 
― Steve Maraboli

•“Patience is the direct antithesis of anger.” 
― Allan Lokos

•“If you stay in the company of anger, pain, or hurt, happiness will find someone else to visit. Make the choice to view all of your past relationships as a gift. Throw out what hasn’t worked in the past and incorporate new concepts. Focus on being happy.” 
― Kristen Crockett

Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
― Petrarch 

•“Never be angry with something that can't get angry with you.” 
― Jack Gardner

•“If you take action while you are mad, you will always make the wrong decision.” 
― Robyn Wheeler

•“There is nothing worse than having an enemy who is a total loser. It's incredibly frustrating when seeking revenge against one, because you come to the realization that there is really nothing you can do to make the person's life worse than it already is. They have nothing to take, there is no way to screw them over if you have been their victim. It's maddening.” 
― Ashly Lorenzana

•“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 

•“Divorce lawyers stoke anger and fear in their clients, knowing that as long as the conflicts remain unresolved the revenue stream will keep flowing.” 
― Craig Ferguson

•“Bad luck with women is a determined man's road to success. For every affliction, he makes, out of indignation, yet another advancement in order to exceed the man that the woman chose over him. This goes to show that great men are made great because they once learned how to fight the feeling of rejection.” 
― Criss Jami

•“Anger's like a battery that leaks acid right out of me
And it starts from the heart 'til it reaches my outer me” 
― Criss Jami

•“Anger does not solve anything; it builds nothing.” 
― Thomas S. Monson

•“Remember that the choices you make, and the reasons you make them, shape your destiny. Remember your free will...And remember, what the True One has made is supposed to bring balance and unity, not anger, fear or revenge. Do not fear, what is yours to use. Only beware the ends to which it is turned, and know the means will truly determine the outcome.” 
― Derek Donais

•“There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart.” 
―Thomas Fuller 

•“Remember Grace, if you let anger into your heart, it will push out your ability to love.” 
― Bree Despain

•“Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them.” 
―James Fallows 

•“It is wise to direct your anger towards problems -- not people; to focus your energies on answers -- not excuses.” 
― William Arthur Ward

•“Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.” 
― Carl Sandburg

•“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

•“Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.” 
― Ambrose Bierce

•“Anger, resentment and jealousy doesn't change the heart of others-- it only changes yours.” 
― Shannon L. Alder

•“Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.”
― Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton 

•“I have actually known a case where a Woman has exterminated her whole household, and half an hour afterwards, when her rage was over and the fragments swept away, has asked what has become of her husband and her children.” 
― Edwin A. Abbott

•“Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.”
― Terry Brooks 

•“Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything - anger, anxiety, or possessions - we cannot be free.” 
― Thich Nhat Hanh

•“Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.”
― Confucius   

•“because the past was always around her and might return at any time. It prowled the world searching for her, and she knew it was growing angrier at every passing day.” 
― Nicholas Sparks

•“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 

•“In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.”
― Lee Iacocca 

•“I turned to music originally because of my past and needing a release or an outlet to get out anger or frustration or hurt.”
― Christina Aguilera 

•“The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.”
― Walter Savage Landor 

•“Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.”
― Indira Gandhi 

•“Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.”
― Ambrose Bierce 

•“Anger it's a paralyzing emotion you can't get anything done. People sort of think it's an interesting, passionate, and igniting feeling I don't think it's any of that it's helpless it's absence of control —- and I need all of my skills, all of the control, all of my powers and anger doesn't provide any of that I have no use for it whatsoever.” 
― Toni Morrison

•“For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.” 
― Ralph Waldo Emerson 

•“A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.” 
― Christopher Morley 

•“Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond who you were.” 
― Jonathan Anthony Burkett

•“Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity.” 
―Yoko Ono 

•“Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what we can't do, fear or even disgust at growing old.” 
― Rowan Williams 

•“You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.” 
― Buddha