Transform Your Anger: 30 Inspirational Quotes to Reflect On

"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

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Will Rogers

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

- Ambrose Bierce

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

- Marcus Aurelius

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

- Thomas Fuller

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

- George Jean Nathan

"There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust."

- St. Francis de Sales

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

- Chinese Proverb

"If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?"

- Sydney J. Harris

"He who angers you conquers you."

- Elizabeth Kenny

"Anger is one letter short of danger."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Let today be the day you stop being haunted by the ghost of yesterday. Holding a grudge & harboring anger/resentment is poison to the soul."

- Steve Maraboli

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

- Malachy McCourt

"When angry, count four. When very angry, swear."

- Mark Twain

"If you kick a stone in anger, you’ll hurt your own foot."

- Korean Proverb

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

- William Arthur Ward

"Anger ... it's a paralyzing emotion ... you can't get anything done."

- Toni Morrison

"Learn this from me. Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside."

- Mitch Albom

"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

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

- Phyllis Diller

"Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy."

- Roy T. Bennett

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

- Maya Angelou

"Anger is an indication that we are lacking emotional intelligence."

- Daniel Goleman

"Anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die."

- Gautama Buddha

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

- Shannon Alder

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"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

"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

"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

"When anger rises, think of the consequences."

- Confucius

"Anger is often a symptom of underlying pain or fear."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"Speak when you are angry, and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret."

- Laurence J. Peter

"Angry people are not always wise."

- Jane Austen

"The best fighter is never angry."

- Lao Tzu

"Anger is only one letter short of danger."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

"Holding onto anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned."

"Resentment is stabbing yourself to get at the person behind you."

"Resentment is setting yourself on fire so the smoke will annoy someone."