Anger Quotes:- Anger or wrath is an intense negative emotion. It involves a strong uncomfortable and hostile response to a perceived provocation, hurt or threat. Some have a learned tendency to react to anger through retaliation as a way of coping. Anger can occur when a person feels their personal boundaries are being or are going to be violated.
Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous Anger quotes, Anger sayings, and Anger proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.
Motivational Anger Quotes And Sayings
A hand ready to hit may cause you great trouble.
–Maori (on anger)
A man in a passion rides a mad horse.
–Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
A quarrelsome man has no good neighbors.
–Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
Anger is a short madness.
–Horace (65-8 BC)
Anger is often more hurtful than the injury that caused it.
–English (on anger)
–Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)
Clouds gather before a storm.
–unknown
Don’t get your back up.
–unknown
Exaggeration is the truth that has lost its temper.
–Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931)
Fire in the heart sends smoke into the head.
–German Proverb
Famous Anger Quotes And Proverbs
Hard words break no bones.
–unknown
If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
–Chinese Proverb
If you kick a stone in anger you will hurt your foot.
–Korean (on anger)
Postpone today’s anger until tomorrow.
–Tagalog (Filipino) (on anger)
Red sky at night, shepherd’s delight; red sky in the morning, shepherd take warning.
–unknown
The anger of the prudent never shows.
–Burmese (on anger)
The greatest remedy for anger is a delay.
–unknown
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 ventilated often hurries toward forgiveness, and concealed often hardens into revenge.
–Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Humorous Anger Quotes And AngerProverbs
Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.
–Eckhart Tolle
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.
–Baptist Beacon
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
–Maya Angelou
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
–Ambrose Bierce
It is wise to direct your anger towards problems — not people; to focus your energies on answers — not excuses.
–William Arthur Ward
Never respond to an angry person with a fiery comeback, even if he deserves it…Don’t allow his anger to become your anger.
–Bohdi Sanders
Learn this from me. Holding anger is 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.
–Mitch Albom
Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.
–Benjamin Franklin
A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.
–Bruce Lee
You can’t shake hands with a clenched fist.
–Indira Gandhi
