50 Powerful Anger Inspirational Quotes to Transform Your Emotions

"While seeking revenge, dig two graves - one for yourself."

- Douglas Horton

"Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret."

- Ambrose Bierce

"Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help."

- Thomas Fuller

"If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow."

- Chinese Proverb

"He who angers you conquers you."

- Elizabeth Kenny

"Anger is one letter short of danger."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Malachy McCourt

"Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools."

- Albert Einstein

"Anger is short-lived madness."

- Horace

"Anger blows out the lamp of the mind."

- Robert G. Ingersoll

"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’Armour

"To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee."

- William H. Walton

"When anger rises, think of the consequences."

- Confucius

"Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean."

- Maya Angelou

"When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred."

- Thomas Jefferson

"Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame."

- Benjamin Franklin

"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. You can choose to not let little things upset you."

- Joel Osteen

"When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger."

- Epictetus

"There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot."

- Plato

"To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves."

- Alexander Pope

"Get mad, then get over it."

- General Colin Powell

"Sometimes, you have to get angry to get things done."

- Ang Lee

"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. Abused patience turns to fury."

- Francis Quarles

"A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever."

- Jessamyn West

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

- Alfred A. Montapert

"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

"Keep your temper. A decision made in anger is never sound."

- Ford Frick

"Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance."

- Pythagoras

"A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them."

- Carl Jung

"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

"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

"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

"Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"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

"When you assume negative intent, you're angry. If you take away that anger and assume positive intent, you will be amazed. Your emotional quotient goes up because you are no longer almost random in your response."

- Indra Nooyi

"I get angry about things, then go on and work."

- Toni Morrison

"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear."

- Zora Neale Hurston

"People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing."

- Will Rogers

"As far as having peace within myself, the one way I can do that is forgiving the people who have done wrong to me. It causes more stress to build up anger. Peace is more productive."

- Rodney King

"How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it."

- Marcus Aurelius

"I realized that if my thoughts immediately affect my body, I should be careful about what I think. Now if I get angry, I ask myself why I feel that way. If I can find the source of my anger, I can turn that negative energy into something positive."

- Yoko Ono

"No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched."

- George Jean Nathan

"Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache, and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life."

- Joan Lunden

"Anger, resentment, and jealousy doesn't change the heart of others-- it only changes yours."

- Shannon Alder

"The opposite of anger is not calmness, its empathy."

- Mehmet Oz

"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."

- Buddah

"Anger is about protecting something vulnerable inside or outside ourselves. Instead of saying, ‘I am angry,’ it can be helpful to say ‘anger is happening.’ This can allow us to be curious about our anger rather than wallowing in it. [...] Experiencing anger is one thing. Knowing how to express it is another. Often, we can find ourselves alternating between rage and stony silence, neither of which is functional. We each must learn, through trial and error, how to voice our anger. [...] A good question to ask ourselves is, ‘Are there ways to voice my anger that will benefit me or anyone else?’"

- Mary Pipher

"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."

- Isaac Asimov

"You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger."

- Buddha

"People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining."

- Stephen Hawking

"Fear is the only true enemy, born of ignorance and the parent of anger and hate."

- Edward Albert

"Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness."

- James Thurber

"Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind."

- Robert Green Ingersoll

"When you hold on to anger and unforgiveness, you can't move forward."

- Mary J. Blige

"It is wise to direct your anger towards problems, not people—to focus your energies on answers, not excuses."

- William Arthur Ward

"Angry people are not always wise."

- Jane Austen

"Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not 'yours', not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you."

- Eckhart Tolle

"It is an act of courage to acknowledge our own uncertainty and sit with it for a while. Too often, anger propels us to take positions that we have not thought through carefully enough or that we are not really ready to take. [...] Slow down! Our anger can be a powerful vehicle for personal growth and change [even] if it does nothing more than help us recognize that we are not yet clear about something and that it is our job to keep struggling with it."

- Harriet Lerner

"Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned."

- William Congreve

"Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects."

- Richard M. Nixon

"Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy."

- George Herbert

"When I am angry I can pray well and preach well."

- Martin Luther

"Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight."

- Phyllis Diller

"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

"Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool."

- Charles Simmons

"Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose."

- Billie Holiday

"Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose."

- Baltasar Gracian

"Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance."

- Robert Quillen

"We boil at different degrees."

- Clint Eastwood

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

"The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present."

"When you are angry, you’re carrying the burden while the other person is out dancing."