Anger Quotes
Anger is an emotion we all feel, the difference is how we react to that feeling. When you feel angry, ask yourself, if the anger you feel solves the problem at hand or if it prevents the same problem from repeating itself?. If it does not, don’t let their provocation make you do things you will live to regret. Become the best version of yourself by channelling your anger to something constructive.
Read through our collection of anger quotes to learn the negative effects of anger. We hope these quotes will inspire you to control your temper and develop an excellent way to manage the anger you feel.
60 Anger Quotes & Sayings
“Speak when you are angry and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.” Ambrose Brierce
“Anger resolves nothing it only puts up your blood pressure.” Catherine Pulsifer
“For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy.” Roy T. Bennett
“Anger is just anger. It isn’t good. It isn’t bad. It just is. What you do with it is what matters. It’s like anything else. You can use it to build or to destroy. You just have to make the choice.” Jim Butcher
“If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.” Chinese Proverb
“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
“Anger, resentment and jealousy doesn’t change the heart of others – it only changes yours.” Shannon Alder
“When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry, count to a hundred.” Thomas Jefferson
“Never respond to an angry person with a fiery comeback, even if he deserves it. Don’t allow his anger to become your anger.” Bohdi Sanders
“A heart filled with anger has no room for love.” Joan Lunden
“A void in my chest was beginning to fill with anger. Quiet, defeated anger that guaranteed me the right to my hurt, that believed no one could possibly understand that hurt.” Rachel Sontag
“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
“Let today be the day you finally release yourself from the imprisonment of past grudges and anger. Simplify your life. Let go of the poisonous past and live the abundantly beautiful present, today.” Steve Maraboli
“Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.” Eckhart Tolle
“He who angers you conquers you.” Elizabeth Kenny
“Anger is like flowing water; there’s nothing wrong with it as long as you let it flow. Hate is like stagnant water; anger that you denied yourself the freedom to feel, the freedom to flow; water that you gathered in one place and left to forget. Stagnant water becomes dirty, stinky, disease-ridden, poisonous, deadly; that is your hate. On flowing water travels little paper boats; paper boats of forgiveness. Allow yourself to feel anger, allow your waters to flow, along with all the paper boats of forgiveness. Be human.” C. JoyBell C.
“Anger is one letter short of danger.” Eleanor Roosevelt
“I lose my temper, but it’s all over in a minute,” said the student. “So is the hydrogen bomb,” I replied. “But think of the damage it produces!”-George Sweeting
“Anger is a sign that something needs to change.” Anonymous
“If you kick a stone in anger, you will hurt your foot.” Korean Proverb
“Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.” _Yoda
“Postpone today’s anger until tomorrow.” Tagalog Proverb
“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
“Learn this from me. Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves.” Mitch Albom
“How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.” Marcus Aurelius
“Transformation is my favorite game and, in my experience, anger and frustration are the result of you not being authentic somewhere in your life or with someone in your life. Being fake about anything creates a block inside of you. Life can’t work for you if you don’t show up as you.” Jason Mraz
“It is okay to talk about the past, as long as there’s no bitterness and anger. It only gives you a heart attack. It won’t change the past either.” Ann Marie Aguilar
“Let today be the day you stop being haunted by the ghost of yesterday. Holding a grudge and 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
“Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; and concealed often hardens into revenge.” Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
“Anger is useful only to a certain point. After that, it becomes rage, and rage will make you careless.” Lauren Oliver
“To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.” Alexander Pope
“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
“To be angry is to let others’ mistakes punish yourself.” Buddha
“Love gives us a heightened consciousness through which to apprehend the world, but anger gives us a precise, detached perception of its own.” Scott Spencer
“Whoever is able to anger you is able to control you.” Lamine Pearlheart
“Don’t get angry quickly – be kind, be forgiving, be patient.” Patricia Meyers
“My mother’s psychologist says I have an overactive anger switch, but people just keep pissing me off.”
― Meg Cabot
― Meg Cabot
“Men in rage strike those that wish them best.”― William Shakespeare
“If you try to get rid of fear and anger without knowing their meaning, they will grow stronger and return.”― Deepak Chopra
“Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you are.”― Cherie Carter-Scott
“Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.”
― Maya Angelou
― Maya Angelou
“Angry people are not always wise.”― Jane Austen
“Make your anger so expensive that no one can afford it, and make your happiness so cheap that people can almost get it free.” Anonymous
“The greatest remedy for anger is delay.” Thomas Paine
“Hold your words when you are angry because sometimes words spoken in anger leave a scar that can never be healed.” Anonymous
Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.__Albert Einstein
“My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world.” Jack Layton
When we talk about anger management, we are talking about how you control your emotional and physiological responses to situations that cause anger. You cannot avoid these situations and you cannot avoid becoming angry at times; that is only natural. However, you can learn to control how you react. James Seals
“Don’t hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.”― Leo Buscaglia
“The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable, Is that which rages in the place of dearest love.”― Euripides
“In days that follow, I discover that anger is easier to handle than grief.”― Emily Giffin
“Whenever she felt like crying, she would instead become angry—at someone else or at herself—which meant that it was rare for her to shed tears.”― Haruki Murakami
“Anger is stupid, and stupidity will kill you more surely than your opponent’s blade.”― Patricia Briggs
“Usually when people are sad, they don’t do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.”― Malcolm X
“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
― Aristotle
“Conquer the angry pne by not getting angry; conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by generosity, and the liar by speaking the truth.” Siddhartha Gautama
“The best fighter is never angry.” Lao Tzu
“Scores of studies have shown that venting doesn’t soothe anger; it fuels it.” Susan Cain
“It is wise to direct your anger towards problems, not people; to focus your energies on answers, not excuses.” William Arthur Ward