Top 40 Anger Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.”

— Eckhart Tolle

2. “Anger is like a flame blazing up and consuming our self-control, making us think, say, and do things that we will probably regret later.”

— Nhat Hanh

3. “He who angers you conquers you.”

— Elizabeth Kenny

4. “If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?”

— Khalil Gibran

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5. “We are reminded that anger doesn’t solve anything. It builds nothing, but it can destroy everything.”

— Thomas S. Monson

6. “In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.”

— Pythagoras

7. “Anger is one letter short of danger.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

8. “No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful or greedy. Unless you let him.”

— Napoleon Hill

9. “Don’t lose your temper; use it.”

— Dolly Parton

10. “Anger is really disappointed hope.”

— Erica Jong

11. “Anger doesn’t demand action. When you act in anger, you lose self-control.”

— Joe Hyams

12. “Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.”

— Steven Wright

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13. “Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.”

— Mario Puzo

14. “No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.”

— Plutarch

15. “Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance.”

— Robert Quillen

16. “There’s a natural law of karma that vindictive people, who go out of their way to hurt others, will end up broke and alone.”

— Sylvester Stallone

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17. “Watch out for each other. Love everyone and forgive everyone, including yourself. Forgive your anger. Forgive your guilt. Your shame. Your sadness. Embrace and open up your love, your joy, your truth, and most especially your heart.”

— Jim Henson

18. “Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems.”

— Scott Adams

19. “Be too big for worry and too noble for anger.”

— Christian D. Larson

20. “Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.”

— Cherie Carter-Scott

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21. “If you’re angry at a loved one, hug that person. And mean it. You may not want to hug – which is all the more reason to do so. It’s hard to stay angry when someone shows they love you, and that’s precisely what happens when we hug each other.”

— Walter Anderson

22. “Keep cool and you command everybody.”

— Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

23. “It’s time we stop worrying, and get angry you know? But not angry and pick up a gun, but angry and open our minds.”

— Tupac Shakur

24. “It isn’t the mountain ahead that wears you out; it’s the grain of sand in your shoe.”

— Robert W. Service

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25. “If you get angry easily, it may be because the seed of anger in you has been watered frequently over many years, and unfortunately you have allowed it or even encouraged it to be watered.”

— Nhat Hanh

26. “When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.”

— Epictetus

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27. “Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on.”

— Alice Miller

28. “Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.”

— Willie Nelson

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29. “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.”

— John Dryden

30. “Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.”

— William Saroyan

31. “Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on.”

— Stephen King

32. “Out of anger comes controversy, out of controversy comes conversation, out of conversation comes action.”

— Tupac Shakur

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

— Barbara De Angelis

34. “The principal use of prudence, of self-control, is that it teaches us to be masters of our passions, and to so control and guide them that the evils which they cause are quite bearable, and that we even derive joy from them all.”

— René Descartes

35. “Anger should never be an overnight guest.”

— Neal A. Maxwell

36. “Don’t let the sun go down on me.”

— Elton John

37. “The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.”

— Anatole France

38. “I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I’ve been closer to him for that reason.”

— Elie Wiesel

39. “And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my fingers upon thee!”

— Quentin Tarantino

40. “Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.”

— Bertolt Brecht