A compilation of anger quotes to motivate you to get rid of this negative habit and bring tranquility into your life.
Anger and resentment hurt one’s health, spoil relationships, and destroy opportunities. Avoiding anger should be the goal of everyone who wishes to live a happy and harmonious life.
Anger is an instinctive feeling that arises when our plans do not turn as expected. It also appears when we face delays and frustration and when we feel that people are hurting our feelings or ridiculing us.
It is a harmful feeling, which everyone should replace with tolerance, patience and tranquility. This might take effort and time, but is possible, and the results are most worthwhile.
Here is a collection of quotes about anger, on being angry, the effects of anger, and how to avoid it.
Each quote contains wisdom and insight that can help an angry person appreciate the need to stay calm.
Quotes About Anger and on Being Angry
“He who angers you conquers you.”
“Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.”
“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.”
“Anger resembles fire. Like the fire, if you keep feeding it, it will get stronger, and harm you. If you stop feeding anger with your attention, it will fade away.”
“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.”
“A quarrelsome man has no good neighbors.”
“Rudeness is the weak man’s imitation of strength.”
“The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed develops into habit. And the habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care. And let it spring from love, born out of concern for all beings.”
“We boil at different degrees.”
“Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.”
Being Resentful and Angry Quotes
Resentment quotes and anger quotes that emphasize the importance of getting rid of resentment and of anger.
“Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.”
“The seeds of anger and resentment cannot germinate and grow in a peaceful and calm mind.”
“If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.”
“Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy.”
“Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.”
“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.”
“Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.”
“The degree of one’s emotion varies inversely with one’s knowledge of the facts: the less you know the hotter you get.”
“The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.”
“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.”
Being Angry Quotes and Sayings
Quotes about anger to help you raise above anger and learn to avoid it.
“When anger rises, think of the consequences.”
“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.”
“Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.”
“If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?”
“Being unable to control your temper is no less of an illness than being anxious or depressed, and it deserves every bit as much sympathy.”
“Anger is a waste of time and energy that harms you. Always do your best to choose tranquility and peace instead.”
“Anger is one letter short of danger.”
“It is wise to direct your anger towards problems – not people; to focus your energies on answers – not excuses.”
“When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.”
“When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.”
“Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.”
“Anger always comes from frustrated expectations.”
Quotes on Anger and Bad Temper
Temper and anger go together. Both are not necessary in your life. Adopting a tranquil mind is one of the best ways to get rid of these two negative habits.
Here is our selection of quotes about anger and about bad temper.
“Don’t hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.”
“A man can’t eat anger for breakfast and sleep with it at night and not suffer damage to his soul.”
“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
“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.”
“If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.”
“Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.”
“You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.”
“A life without anger is a life of peace, tolerance, kindness, discipline and inner strength.”
“A man in a passion, rides a mad horse.”
Anger Quotations
“I don’t usually lose my temper, but if I get angry, it’s true – I’m scary.”
“Anger is one letter short of danger.”
“Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.”
“He who angers you conquers you.”
“Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.”
When you are angry, reading quotes about anger can help you realize the futility of anger and how it can hurt you.
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