Charles Buxton Quotes

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.

Uncontrolled temper is soon dissipated on others. Resentment, bitterness, and self-pity build up inside our hearts and eat away at our spiritual lives like a slowly spreading cancer.

He who harbors hatred and bitterness injures himself far more than the one towards whom he manifests these evil propensities.

Anger is like the blade of a butcher knife - very difficult to hold on to for long without harming yourself.

You can't sustain [anger]. You become bitter. Nothing's going to change. Anger leads to resentment, then to spiking your orange juice, then to martyrdom.

Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.

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.

Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

Every time you get angry, you poison your own system.

Most of the things that make you angry are of very small consequence. And what a terrible price you are paying for your anger.

A fit of anger is as fatal to dignity as a dose of arsenic is to life.

So you try to think of someone else you're mad at, and the unavoidable answer pops into your little warped brain: everyone.

Anger is poison. You must purge it from your mind or else it will corrupt your better nature.

At some point, being angry is just another bad habit, like smoking, and you keep poisoning yourself without thinking about it.

Resentment is an extremely bitter diet, I have no desire to make my own toxins.

Every stroke our fury strikes is sure to hit ourselves at last.

Rage is fine as long as it doesn't deteriorate into bitterness.

When a man gives way to anger, he only harms himself.

Never anger made good guard for itself.

Our anger and annoyance are more detrimental to us than the things themselves which anger or annoy us.

A Rattlesnake, if Cornered will become so angry it will bite itself. That is exactly what the harboring of hate and resentment against others is -- a biting of oneself. We think we are harming others in holding these spites and hates, but the deeper harm is to ourselves.

Beware of anger. It is the most difficult to remove of all the hindrances. But it is the alcohol of the body, you know, and the devil of it is that it deadens the perceptions.

Nursing her wrath to keep it warm.--Robert Burns