Anger Quotes


Anger quotes and sayings about anger point out the consequences of our negative thoughts, actions, and behaviors. Anger is a cry for help. Apply love. Anger directed at ourselves is about pain and a need for healing. Anger directed at others gives our power to that person and drains us of energy. It is often a cover-up for unexpressed sadness. Pay attention to your feelings. Explore the source of your anger and apply forgiveness. Anger can also be an appropriate response to violations of your personal boundaries. If you have a quote you find helpful, please share it with us using the green Submit a Quote button on the left side of this page.



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.
Buddha

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.
Buddha

What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you.
Wayne Dyer

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Anger is just a cowardly extension of sadness. It’s a lot easier to be angry at someone than it is to tell them you’re hurt.
Tom Gates

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
Hermann Hesse

In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.
Michael Jackson

He who angers you conquers you.
Elizabeth Kenny

If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill. It is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H. A. Overstreet

Anger is an integrity-producing response to the invasion of your personal boundaries.
Gabrielle Roth

Let nothing perturb you, nothing frighten you. All things pass. God does not change. Patience achieves everything.
Mother Teresa

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.
Mark Twain

Next time you’re mad, try dancing out your anger.
Sweetpea Tyler

Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.
Yoda



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