Anger Quotes and Sayings That’ll Help You Know More about Anger

Anger Quotes and Sayings

  • “Clouds gather before a storm.” —Unknown
  • “Don’t get your back up.” —Unknown
  • “Hard words break no bones.” —Unknown
  • “He who angers you conquers you.”
  • “Anger is a short madness.” —Horace (65-8 BC)
  • “The greatest remedy for anger is delay.” —Unknown
  • “Get mad, then get over it.” —Colin Powell
  • “Fire in the heart sends smoke into the head.”
  • “Postpone today’s anger until tomorrow.” —Tagalog (Filipino) (on anger)
  • “Beware the fury of a patient man.” —Publilius Syrus
  • “A hand ready to hit, may cause you great trouble.”
  • “A quarrelsome man has no good neighbours.” —Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
  • “Anger is one letter short of danger.” —Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)
  • “The anger of the prudent never shows.” —Burmese (on anger)
  • “You can’t shake hands with a clenched fist.” —Indira Gandhi
  • “Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.” —Albert Einstein
  • “Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.” —Benjamin Franklin
  • “Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.” —Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931)
  • “Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.” —Eckhart Tolle
  • “The sharpest sword is a word spoken in wrath.” —Gautama Buddha
  • “Anger is what makes a clear mind seem clouded.” —Kazi Shams
  • “A man in a passion, rides a mad horse.” —Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
  • “A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.” —Bruce Lee
  • “Not the fastest horse can catch a word spoken in anger.” —Chinese Proverb
  • “Anger is often more hurtful than the injury that caused it.” —English (on anger)
  • “Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.” —Benjamin Franklin
  • “Anger … it’s a paralyzing emotion … you can’t get anything done.” —Toni Morrison
  • “If you kick a stone in anger you will hurt your foot.” —Korean (on anger)
  • “Red sky at night, shepherd’s delight; red sky in the morning, shepherd take warning.” —Unknown
  • “Anger ventilated often hurries toward forgiveness; and concealed often hardens into revenge.” —Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
  • Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.” —Robert Green Ingersoll
  • “Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you are.” —Cherie Carter-Scott
  • “How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.” —Marcus Aurelius
  • “Do not teach your children never to be angry; teach them how to be angry.” —Lyman Abbott
  • “At the core of all anger is a need that is not being fulfilled.” —Marshall B. Rosenberg
  • “Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.” —Ambrose Bierce
  • “If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.” —Chinese Proverb
  • “There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.”
  • “Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.” —Maya Angelou
  • “If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?” —Sydney J. Harris
  • “A man can’t eat anger for breakfast and sleep with it at night and not suffer damage to his soul.” —Garrison Keillor
  • “Sometimes when I’m angry I have the right to be angry, but that doesn’t give me the right to be cruel.” —Unknown
  • “Anger is a valid emotion. It’s only bad when it takes control and makes you do things you don’t want to do.”
  • “It is wise to direct your anger towards problems — not people; to focus your energies on answers — not excuses.” —William Arthur Ward
  • “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
  • “The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.” —Barbara De Angelis
  • “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.” —Baptist Beacon
  • “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
  • “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
  • “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
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