Maya Angelou Anger Quotes

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Maya Angelou

Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.

- Maya Angelou

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

- Maya Angelou

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

- Maya Angelou

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

- Maya Angelou

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

- Maya Angelou

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

- Maya Angelou

All great achievements require time

- Maya Angelou

If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.

- Maya Angelou

You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

- Maya Angelou

When angry, count to four when very angry, swear.

- Mark Twain

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

- Ambrose Bierce

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.

- Mahatma Gandhi

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Buddha

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

- Albert Einstein

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

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

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