Anger Quotes

“If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?” — Sydney J. Harris

“When you feel anger beginning to form in your mind, turn to silence and let it pass.” — Unknown

“Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed, or offended. But what you’re doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness.” — Joel Osteen

“Anger, resentment, and jealousy don’t change the heart of others; they only change yours.” — Shannon Alder

“Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.” — George William Curtis

“Do not teach your children never to be angry; teach them how to be angry.” — Lyman Abbott

“The sharpest sword is a word spoken in wrath.” — Gautama Buddha

“The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn’t angry enough.” — Bede Jarrett

“Anger becomes limiting when you let it be your master.” — Unknown

“Anger doesn’t solve anything. It builds nothing, but it can destroy everything.” — Lawrence Douglas Wilder

“Anger is an emotion, not a weapon.” — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you are.” — Cherie Carter-Scott

“Anger blows out the lamp of the mind.” — Robert G. Ingersoll

“Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept.” — Francis Quarles

“Anger ventilated often hurries toward forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.” — Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

“Anger is one letter short of danger.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

“Do not allow others to control the direction of your life. Own your anger, manage it, and choose peace.” — Unknown

“Never respond to an angry person with a fiery comeback, even if they deserve it. Don’t allow their anger to become your anger.” — Unknown

“Forgive those who insult you, attack you, belittle you or take you for granted. But more than this, forgive yourself for allowing them to hurt you.” — Unknown

“Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.” — George Eliot

“Anger is like fire. It burns all clean.” — Maya Angelou

“Don’t hold to anger, hurt, or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.” — Leo Buscaglia

“It is easy to fly into a passion—anybody can do that—but to be angry with the right person, to the right extent, at the right time, with the right motive, and in the right way, that is not easy.” — Aristotle

“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

“Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.” — Mark Twain

“Never reply when you are angry. Never make a promise when you are happy. Never make a decision when you are sad.” — Unknown

“The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.” — Jacqueline Schiff

“Anger is just one letter short of danger.” — Unknown

“Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.” — Thomas Fuller

“Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.” — Elizabeth I

“Anyone can become angry—that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way—is not easy.” — Aristotle

“There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the breath of life for a conversation.” — James Nathan Miller

“Anger may be foolish, and I may regret it in the morning, but tonight it feels so good.” — Garth Brooks

“Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.” — Horace

“An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.” — Cato the Elder

“If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.” — Chinese Proverb

“Anger is often more hurtful than the injury that caused it.” — English Proverb

“He who angers you, controls you.” — Unknown

“Anger is a short madness.” — Horace

“A fit of anger is as fatal to dignity as a dose of arsenic is to life.” — Josiah Gilbert Holland

“Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the cruelest words.” — Joyce Brothers

“Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.” — George Eliot

“Anger and hate hinder good counsel.” — Unknown

“It’s not about how much you can endure, but how much you can let go of.” — Unknown

“People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.” — Will Rogers

“Anger is a choice, as is calmness and compassion.” — Unknown

“Every time you get angry, you poison your own system.” — Alfred A. Montapert

“Anger does not solve anything; it builds nothing.” — Unknown

“He who conquers his anger has conquered an enemy.” — Unknown

“It is easy to be angry, but it is difficult to be kind.” — Unknown

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