Anger is an emotion usually associated with feelings of frustration, irritation, hostility, or a tendency towards intense or violent reactions. Anger is a natural response to something you don’t like or agree with.
You might get angry if someone cuts in line in front of you or if someone steals your bike. You might also get mad at yourself for missing work when you were supposed to be there early and then getting fired.
Everyone gets angry at some point in his life, but it’s important to try not to let anger control your life. Anger can cause mental health issues, relationship problems, and even physical health issues like heart disease.
Here are 123 inspirational quotes to calm you down in any situation.
“Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.” ― Benjamin Franklin
“I get angry about things, then go on and work.” ― Toni Morrison
“Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.” ― Eckhart Tolle
“For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
“You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.” ― Buddha
“There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.” ― Plato
“Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy.” ― Roy T. Bennett
“Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.” ― Baltasar Gracian
“A moment of patience in a moment of anger saves you a hundred moments of regret.”
“Most misunderstandings in the world could be avoided if people would simply take the time to ask, What else could this mean? – Shannon L. Alder
“Keep your temper. A decision made in anger is never sound.” ― Ford Frick
“Anger doesn’t solve anything. It builds nothing, but it can destroy everything.”
“Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside.” ― Mitch Albom
“Life is so short. The only person you hurt when you stay angry or hold grudges is you. Forgive everyone, including yourself.” ― Tom Giaquinto
“Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.” ― Henry Ward Beecher
“When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.” ― Thomas Jefferson
“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’Amour
“If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?” – Sydney J. Harris
“Anger… it’s a paralyzing emotion. You can’t get anything done.” ― Toni Morrison
“Anger is like flowing water; there’s nothing wrong with it as long as you let it flow.” ― C. JoyBell C.
“Anger is just anger. It isn’t good. It isn’t bad. It just is. What you do with it is what matters. It’s like anything else. You can use it to build or to destroy. You just have to make the choice.” ― Jim Butcher
“When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry, count to a hundred.” ― Thomas Jefferson
“Anger is a valid emotion. It’s only bad when it takes control and makes you do things you don’t want to do.” ― Ellen Hopkins
“Whoever is able to anger you is able to control you.” ― Lamine Pearlheart
“Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.” ― Mahatma Gandhi
“Getting angry doesn’t solve anything.” ― Grace Kelly
“When anger rises, think of the consequences.” ― Confucius
“Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.” ― George William Curtis
“The opposite of anger is not calmness, its empathy.” ― Mehmet Oz
“You can survive with anger, but you can’t live with it forever.” ― Ariel Dorfman
“Speak when you are angry and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.” ― Ambrose Brierce
“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
“Shouting something didn’t make it any more possible.” ― Susan Sontag
“If you kick a stone in anger, you will hurt your foot.” ― Korean Proverb
“Americans are slow to anger, but once they do get angry, they are impossible to stop.” ― Kathleen Troia McFarland
“The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable, is that which rages in the place of dearest love.” ― Euripides
“Anger is useful only to a certain point. After that, it becomes rage, and rage will make you careless.” ― Lauren Oliver
“If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.” ― Chinese Proverb
“Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.” ― George Savile
“Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can’t last.” ― Greg Evans
“He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.” ― Sallust
“Anger’s not a good emotion.” ― Lincoln Chafees
“Do not teach your children never to be angry; teach them how to be angry.” ― Lyman Abbott
“Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.” ― Beverly Sills
“Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.” ― Mahatma Gandhi
“The more anger you hold in your heart towards the past, the less capable you are of loving the present.”
“Anger is a sign that something needs to change.” ― Anonymous
“Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.” ― William Congreve
“Anger can be a useful emotion; it’s built into our genetic code to help with self preservation. But it can also be destructive, even when it is justified.” ― Michael Hayden
“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.” ― Mitch Albom
“If you kick a stone in anger you will hurt your foot.” ― Korean Proverb
“There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.” ― Saint Francis de Sales
“A heart filled with anger has no room for love.” ― Joan Lunden
“Anger does not solve anything; it builds nothing.” ― Thomas S. Monson
“Love gives us a heightened consciousness through which to apprehend the world, but anger gives us a precise, detached perception of its own.” ― Scott Spencer
“Anger is an unnecessary emotion. Loads of stuff in life can trigger it, but what matters is how you react. I choose not to react.” ― Nicola Adams
“Anger is stupid, and stupidity will kill you more surely than your opponent’s blade.” ― Patricia Briggs
“If you are driven by fear, anger or pride nature will force you to compete. If you are guided by courage, awareness, tranquility and peace nature will serve you.” ― Amit Ray
“If anger were mileage, I’d be a very frequent flyer, right up there in First Class.” ― Gina Barreca
“Life’s not that simple. Not so easy to move on when the anger you’ve got is what keeps you going.” ― Rachel Ward
“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
“For every minute you are angry, you lose 60 seconds of happiness.”
“Anger is a valid emotion. It’s only bad when it takes control and makes you do things you don’t want to do.” ― Ellen Hopkins
“Make your anger so expensive that no one can afford it, and make your happiness so cheap that people can almost get it free.” ― Anonymous
“Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.” ― Buddha
“Anger is like a battery that leaks acid right out of me, and it starts from the heart until it reaches my outer me.” ― Criss Jami
“If you try to get rid of fear and anger without knowing their meaning, they will grow stronger and return.” ― Deepak Chopra
“One’s anger is one’s greatest enemy and one’s calmness is one’s protection.” ― Sathya Sai Baba
“The smarter you get, the more you realize anger is not worth it.” ― Maxime Lagace
“Anger has a way of seeping into every other emotion and planting itself in there.” ― Dane Cook
“I came to realize that if people could make me angry they could could control me. Why should I give someone else such power over my life? – Ben Carson
“Every time you get angry, you poison your own system.” ― Alfred A. Montapert
“The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.” ― Barbara De Angelis
“Anger is often more hurtful than the injury that caused it.”
“People won’t have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.” ― Stephen Hawking
“The sharpest sword is a word spoken in wrath.”
“A little anger is a good thing if it isn’t on your own behalf, if it’s for others deserving of your anger, your empathy.” ― David Simon
“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.” ― Joan Lunden
“Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you are.” ― Cherie Carter-Scott
“Hold your words when you are angry because sometimes words spoken in anger leave a scar that can never be healed.” ― Anonymous
“Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.” ― Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“Life is precious and there’s not a lot of room for anger.” ― Fran Drescher
“Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.” ― Thomas Fuller
“There is nothing like wounded affection for giving poignancy to anger.” ― Elizabeth Gaskell
“If it won’t matter in 5 years, don’t spend more than 5 minutes getting angry about it.”
“A lot of artists think they want anger. But a real, strong, bitter anger occupies the mind, leaving no room for creativity.” ― David Lynch
“There’s nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.” ― Wayne Dyer
“Anger, resentment and jealousy doesn’t change the heart of others– it only changes yours.” ― Shannon Alder
“Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.” ― Albert Einstein
“Expressing anger is a form of public littering.” ― Willard Gaylin
“Anger becomes limiting, restricting. You can’t see through it. While anger is there, look at that, too. But after a while, you have to look at something else.” ― Thylias Moss
“I don’t usually lose my temper, but if I get angry, it’s true – I’m scary.” ― Eva Mendes
“Anger makes us feel so isolated.” ― Fred Rogers
“Anger is just anger. It isn’t good. It isn’t bad. It just is. What you do with it is what matters. It’s like anything else. You can use it to build or to destroy. You just have to make the choice.” ― Jim Butcher
“The best fighter is never angry.” ― Lao Tzu
“If it comes, let it come. If it goes, it’s ok, let it go. Let things come and go. Stay calm, don’t let anything disturb your peace, and carry on.” — Germany Kent
“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
“Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.” ― Kahlil Gibran
“Scores of studies have shown that venting doesn’t soothe anger; it fuels it.” ― Susan Cain
“Anger ventilated often hurries toward forgiveness; and concealed often hardens into revenge.” ― Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
“Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.” ― Robert Green Ingersoll
“A man can’t eat anger for breakfast and sleep with it at night and not suffer damage to his soul.” ― Garrison Keillor
“Violent anger makes me physically ill.” ― Langston Hughes
“Anger is a brief madness.” ― Horace
“Control your anger, it’s only one letter away from danger.”
“Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.” ― G. M. Trevelyan
“I believe anger is a wasted emotion, and I don’t like to waste emotions.” ― Jim Webb
“Tears of despair can be fuel.” ― Thunders of anger can be light.” ― Maxime Lagace
“It is wise to direct your anger towards problems – not people; to focus your energies on answers – not excuses.” ― William Arthur Ward
“Anger is one letter short of danger.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt
“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
“How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.” ― Marcus Aurelius
“Anger is what makes a clear mind seem clouded.” ― Kazi Shams
“Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger.” ― Abraham Cahan
“An action committed in anger is an action doomed to failure.” ― Genghis Khan
“Anger does not solve problems – anger only makes things worse. I go by the old saying, ‘Don’t make important decisions when you’re angry.” ― Lionel Sosa
“To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.” ― Alexander Pope
“Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you’re doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.” ― Joel Osteen
“An angry people cannot create anything that is not imbued with anger.” ― John McAfee
“Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.” ― Ambrose Bierce
“It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.” ― Wayne Dyer
“Sometimes when I’m angry I have the right to be angry, but that doesn’t give me the right to be cruel.”
“The greatest remedy for anger is delay.” ― Lucius Annaeus Seneca
