Anger Management Quotes and Affirmations

A collection of quotes and affirmations about anger anger management.

Its time we stop worrying, and get angry you know? But not angry and pick up a gun, but angry and open our minds.
–Tupac Amaru Shakur

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
–Ambrose Bierce

If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit, give it nothing which may tend to its increase.
–Epictetus

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.
–Buddha

Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
–Robert Ingersoll

There is no passion so much transports the sincerity of judgment as doth anger
–Michel de Montaigne

Doc Childre and Howard Martin, HeartMath Solution
Physiologically, it simply doesn’t matter whether your anger is justified or not. The body doesn’t make moral judgements about feelings; it just responds.

Doc Childre and Howard Martin, HeartMath Solution
Resentment, anger, frustration, worry, disappointment—negative emotional states, justified or not, take a toll on your heart, brain and body. Don’t let justified emotions rob your health and well-being.

Leo Buscaglia
Don’t hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Booker T. Washington
I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

Helen Douglas
Character isn’t inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains.

HW Longfellow
If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm any hostility.

Marcus Aurelius
How much more grevious are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

John Dryden
Beware of the fury of the patient man.

Unknown
Sticks and stones may break your bones when there’s anger to inpart. Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.

Lord Halifax
Anger is seldom without an argument but seldom with a good one.

Unknown
Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp’s nest.

Chuck Norris
Men are like steel: when they lose their temper, they lose their worth.

Tryon Edwards
To rule one’s anger is well; to prevent it is still better.

Marcus Antonius
Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.

Cato
An angry man opens his mouth and shuts up his eyes.

W. R. Alger
Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.

Golda Meir
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

St. Francis De Sales
There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.

Chinese Proverb
If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

Shakespeare
Men in rage strike those that wish them best.

Elizabeth Kenny
He who angers you conquers you.

Greek
Those who the Gods would destroy
First they would make angry

Willard Gaylin
Expressing anger is a form of public littering.

Henry Beecher
Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.

Tamil proverb
Great anger is more destructive than the sword.

Pythagoras
Anger begins with folly and ends with repentance.

Pasquier Quesnel
Anger causes us often to condemn in one what we approve in another.

Alfred Montapert
Every time you get angry, you poison your own system.

Thomas Fuller
Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.

Clarendon
Anger is the most impotent passion that accompanies the mind of man; it effects nothing it goes about; and hurts the man who is possessed by it more than any other against whom it is directed.

Jefferson
When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred.

Thomas a Kempis
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.

Proverbs 14:17a
He that is soon angry dealeth foolishly…

Benjamin Franklin
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

Seneca
He is a fool who cannot be angry; but he is a wise man who will not.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self control is the rule.
Anger is an uncontrollable feeling that betrays what you are when you are not yourself.
Anger is that powerful internal force that blows out the light of reason.
Know this to be the enemy: it is anger, born of desire.

Dr. Robert Anthony
The angry people are those people who are most afraid.

Horace
Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

Walter S. Landor
The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

George Jean Nathan
No man can think clearly when his fist are clenched.

Frederick Buechner
Of the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and the pain you are giving back–in many ways it is a feast fit for a king. The chief drawback is that what you are wolfing down is yourself. The skeleton at the feast is you.

William Blake
I was angry with my friend
I told my wrath, my wrath did end.
I was angry with my foe:
I told it not, my wrath did grow.
A Poison Tree

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size? ~Sydney J. Harris

There is nothing more galling to angry people than the coolness of those on whom they wish to vent their spleen. ~Alexandre Dumas

He who angers you conquers you. ~Elizabeth Kenny

For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness. ~Author Unknown

Anger is one letter short of danger. ~Author Unknown

Anger ventilated often hurries toward forgiveness; and concealed often hardens into revenge. ~Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing. ~Will Rogers

Never write a letter while you are angry. ~Chinese Proverb

Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight. ~Phyllis Diller, Phyllis Diller’s Housekeeping Hints, 1966

Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die. ~Malachy McCourt

Anger as soon as fed is dead -
‘Tis starving makes it fat.
~Emily Dickinson

If you kick a stone in anger, you’ll hurt your own foot. ~Korean Proverb

Not the fastest horse can catch a word spoken in anger. ~Chinese Proverb

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools. ~Albert Einstein

Anger is momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you. ~Horace, Epistles

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, The Confidence Course, 1997

Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. ~Robert G. Ingersoll

Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them. ~James Fallows

I don’t have to attend every argument I’m invited to. ~Author Unknown

Malice drinks one-half of its own poison. ~Seneca

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’Armour

Never strike your wife – even with a flower. ~Hindu Proverb

Anger is a bad counselor. ~French Proverb

Resentment is an extremely bitter diet, and eventually poisonous. I have no desire to make my own toxins. ~Neil Kinnock

To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee. ~William H. Walton

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk. ~Jacqueline Schiff

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