Anger Quotes
Quotes about anger and mastering your temper. This hand-picked collection brings together 23 of the finest anger quotes ever written — from African Proverb, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Maya Angelou and other great voices. Tap Copy on any quote to save or share it.
Speaking without thinking is shooting without aiming — anger makes both worse.
The greatest remedy for anger is delay — count to ten and breathe.
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.
Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate.
No matter how hot your anger is, it cannot cook yams.
Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.
Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the crudest words.
Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.
Anger is a short madness.
You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.
When anger rises, think of the consequences.
Anger or hatred is like a fisherman's hook. It is very important for us to ensure that we are not caught by it.
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
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.
Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.
The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
Any person capable of angering you becomes your master.
For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
Conquer anger with non-anger. Conquer badness with goodness. Conquer meanness with generosity.