Famous Quotes

"Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be."

Thomas a Kempis on Anger

More quotes about Anger

• "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 on Anger

• "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."

  Aristotle on Anger

• "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 on Anger

• "Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools."

  Albert Einstein on Anger

• "Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean."

  Maya Angelou on Anger

More quotes by Thomas a Kempis

• "The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid."

• "Wait for the Lord. Behave yourself manfully, and be of good courage. Do not be faithless, but stay in your place and do not turn back."

• "Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it."

• "What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?"

• "Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it."