Epictetus Anger Quotes

Any person capable of angering you becomes your master, He can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him

- Epictetus

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

- Epictetus

Common and vulgar people ascribe all ills that they feel to others; people of little wisdom ascribe to themselves; people of much wisdom, to no one.

- Epictetus

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

- Epictetus

First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.

- Epictetus

Any person capable of angering you becomes your master, He can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him

- Epictetus

Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.

- Epictetus

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.

- Epictetus

Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.

- Epictetus

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

- Epictetus

It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.

- Epictetus

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

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

- Maya Angelou

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