These anger quotes will inspire you. Anger, also known as wrath or rage, is an intense emotional state involving a strong uncomfortable, and non-cooperative response to a perceived provocation, hurt, or threat.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging anger quotes, anger sayings, and anger proverbs.
Best Anger Quotes
- “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
- “The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.” ~ Barbara De Angelis
- “Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.” ~ Ambrose Bierce
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“It is wise to direct your anger towards problems – not people; to focus your energies on answers – not excuses.” ~ William Arthur Ward
- “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
- “For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Anger is one letter short of danger.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
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“It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won’t go.” ~ Bertrand Russell
- “A moment of patience in a moment of anger prevents a thousand moments of regret.” ~ Ali ibn Abi Talib
- “Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance.” ~ Robert Quillen
- “There needs to be understanding that anger never helps to solve a problem. It destroys our peace of mind and blinds our ability to think clearly. Anger and attachment are emotions that distort our view of reality.” ~ Dalai Lama
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“When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.” ~ Epictetus
- “Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.” ~ Saint Augustine
- “Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.” ~ Carrie Fisher
- “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
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“We are reminded that anger doesn’t solve anything. It builds nothing, but it can destroy everything.” ~ Thomas S. Monson
- “It’s never what people do that makes us angry; it’s what we tell ourselves about what they did.” ~ Marshall B. Rosenberg
- “Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.” ~ Epictetus
- “Don’t hold to anger, hurt, or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.” ~ Leo Buscaglia , Anger quotes about love
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“Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “Don’t get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.” ~ Richard M. Nixon
- “Flying off the handle sometimes causes hammers and humans to lose their heads, as well as their effectiveness.” ~ William Arthur Ward
- “Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.” ~ George Lucas
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“When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.” ~ Thomas Jefferson
- “It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.” ~ Wayne Dyer
- “Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before – it takes something from him.” ~ Louis L’Amour
- “How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.” ~ Marcus Aurelius
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“Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “In the beginning, the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.” ~ Douglas Adams
- “I know of no more disagreeable sensation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.” ~ Frank Moore Colby
- “Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
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“Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.” ~ Baltasar Gracian
- “What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you.” ~ Wayne Dyer
- “One should not lose one’s temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.” ~ William Butler Yeats
- “Anger is the most impotent of passions. It affects nothing it goes about and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.” ~ Carl Sandburg
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“People won’t have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.” ~ Stephen Hawking
- “The best remedy for anger is delay.” ~ Brigham Young
- “The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.” ~ James A. Garfield , Truth in anger quotes
- “No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful or greedy. Unless you let him.” ~ Napoleon Hill
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“He who angers you conquers you.” ~ Elizabeth Kenny
- “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
- “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 , Self anger quotes
- “Why do we hold onto negativity? For some reason, we believe that others are affected by our experience of remaining upset, hurt, or angry. Holding on to pain, anger, guilt or shame is the glue that binds us to the situation we want to escape.” ~ Iyanla Vanzant
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“Angry people are not always wise.” ~ Jane Austen
- “Happiness arises as a result of different causes and conditions. If you harm someone out of anger, you may feel some superficial satisfaction, but deep down you know it was wrong. Your confidence will be undermined. However, if you have an altruistic attitude, you’ll feel comfortable and confident in the presence of others.” ~ Dalai Lama
- “Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.” ~ J. R. R. Tolkien
- “Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.” ~ Josh Billings
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“Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.” ~ Phyllis Diller
- “I know, to banish anger altogether from one’s breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God’s grace.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
- “When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out, because that’s what’s inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside.” ~ Wayne Dyer
- “It isn’t the mountain ahead that wears you out; it’s the grain of sand in your shoe.” ~ Robert W. Service
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“In times of great stress or adversity, it’s always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.” ~ Lee Iacocca
- “The way to change other’s minds is with affection and not anger.” ~ Dalai Lama
- “He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.” ~ John Ruskin
- “Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.” ~ Seneca the Younger
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“Anger exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect.” ~ Euripides
- “Acting in anger and hatred throughout my life, I frequently precipitated what I feared most, the loss of friendships and the need to rely upon the very people I’d abused.” ~ Luke Ford , Anger quotes about life
- “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
- “One of the best ways of keeping your temper in an argument, as most of us know only too well, is not to listen to anything the other person has to say.” ~ Alice Miller
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“Get mad, then get over it.” ~ Colin Powell
- “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.” ~ Nhat Hanh
- “Of the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and the pain you are giving back–in many ways it is a feast fit for a king. The chief drawback is that what you are wolfing down is yourself. The skeleton at the feast is you.” ~ Frederick Buechner
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“A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.” ~ Christopher Morley
- “There’s nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.” ~ Wayne Dyer
- “A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.” ~ Winston Churchill
