70 Quotes About Being Angry | Anger Quotes, Sayings & Images

Anger is one of the many emotions humans are endowed with. Being angry and red-faced in rage is not a wise thing to do. We all get angry, but you can always choose your reaction. Try to count 10 before you react or yell at someone. You can hurt people with your angry words, expressions, and actions.

So try to calm down and wait for your temper to cool down before taking decisions or reacting. We have compiled a collection of being angry quotes and sayings which will encourage you to cool down.

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Famous Being Angry Quotes & Sayings

1. “Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.”- Eckhart Tolle
   

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2. “Anger resolves nothing it only puts up your blood pressure.” – Catherine Pulsifer
   

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3. “You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.” – Buddha
   

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4. “The sharpest sword is a word spoken in wrath.” – Gautama Buddha
   

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5. “Whoever is able to anger you is able to control you. – On Anger.” ― Lamine Pearl heart
   

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6. “Anger expressed in a healthy and positive way means that we channel emotional anger towards resolution not attack.”-  Byron R. Pulsifer
   

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7. “For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
   

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8. “Let not the sun go down upon your anger. Anger must be limited and confined, both in race and in time.” – Francis Bacon
   

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9. “The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.”- Barbara de Angelis
   

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

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11. “Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.”― Maya Angelou
    

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12. “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
    

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13. “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
    

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14. “Angry people want you to see how powerful they are… loving people want you to see how powerful You are.”― Chief Red Eagle
    

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15. “You can’t selectively numb your anger, any more than you can turn off all lights in a room, and still expect to see the light.”― Shannon L. Alder
    

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16. “Getting angry in a stressful situation is like trying to clean something with dirt” ― Urbanky Aurel Petr
    

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17. “Hard words break no bones.”
    

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18. “Anger is a short madness.”- Horace
    

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19. “The greatest remedy for anger is delay.”
    

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20. “The anger of the prudent never shows.”- Burmese
    

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21. “Beware the fury of a patient man.”- Publilius Syrus
    

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22. “But angry people are not always wise.”- Jane Austen
    

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23. “He who angers you conquers you.”- Elizabeth Kenny
    

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24. “Anger is often more hurtful than the injury that caused it.”
    

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25. “Anger is one letter short of danger.”- Eleanor Roosevelt
    

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26. “A hand ready to hit, may cause you great trouble.”- Maori
    

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27. “When anger rises, think of the consequences.”- Confucius
    

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28. “Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.”- Albert Einstein
    

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29. “If you kick a stone in anger you will hurt your foot.”- Korean
    

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30. “You can’t shake hands with a clenched fist.”- Indira Gandhi
    

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31. “A man in a passion, rides a mad horse.”- Benjamin Franklin
    

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32. “Postpone today’s anger until tomorrow.”- Tagalog (Filipino)
    

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33. “Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.”- Kahlil Gibran
    

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34. “Anger is what makes a clear mind seem clouded.”- Kazi Shams
    

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35. “Fire in the heart sends smoke into the head.”- German Proverb
    

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36. “A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.”- Bruce Lee
    

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37. “Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can’t last.”- Greg Evans
    

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38. “The opposite of anger is not calmness, its empathy.”- Mehmet Oz
    

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39. “Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.”- Elizabeth I
    

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40. “The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.”- Joe Klaas
    

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41. “Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.”- Benjamin Franklin
    

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42. “When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.”- Mark Twain
    

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43. “He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.”- Sallust
    

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44. “The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.”- Jacqueline Schiff
    

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45. “Not the fastest horse can catch a word spoken in anger.”- Chinese Proverb
    

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46. “To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.”- Alexander Pope
    

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47. “Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.”- Mahatma Gandhi
    

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48. “If you don’t control your temper. Your temper will control you.”- Stephen King
    

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49. “Every time you get angry, you poison your own system.”- Alfred A. Montapert
    

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50. “Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.”- Robert Green Ingersoll
    

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51. “Anger … it’s a paralyzing emotion … you can’t get anything done.”- Toni Morrison
    

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52. “If it won’t matter in 5 years, don’t spend more than 5 minutes getting angry about it.”
    

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53. “Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.”- Benjamin Franklin
    

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54. “Anger is momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.”- Horace
    

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55. “In days that follow, I discover that anger is easier to handle than grief.”- Emily Giffin
    

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56. “At the core of all anger is a need that is not being fulfilled.”- Marshall B. Rosenberg
    

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57. “Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.”- Mahatma Gandhi
    

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58. “There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.”- Saint Francis De Sales
    

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59. “Anger doesn’t demand action. When you act in anger, you lose self-control.”- Joe Hyams
    

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60. “Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.”- George Eliot
    

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61. “Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.”- Buddha
    

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62. “Do not teach your children never to be angry; teach them how to be angry.”- Lyman Abbott
    

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63. “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”- Ralph Waldo Emerson
    

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64. “Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.”- G. M. Trevelyan
    

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65. “Sometimes when I’m angry I have the right to be angry, but that doesn’t give me the right to be cruel.”
    

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66. “A fool gives full vent to his anger, but a wise man keeps himself under control.”- PROVERBS 29:11
    

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67. “Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.”- Mahatma Gandhi
    

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68. “Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.”- Ambrose Brierce
    

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69. “Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.”- Baltasar Gracian
    

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70. “When angry we let others’ mistakes punish us. To forgive others is to be kind to yourself.”- Buddha
    

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71. “How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.”- Marcus Aurelius
    

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72. “For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.”- Ralph Waldo Emerson
    

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

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74. “When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.”- Thomas Jefferson
    

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75. “Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you are.”- Cherie Carter-Scott
    

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76. “My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break.”- William Shakespeare
    

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77. “There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.”- Plato
    

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

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79. “Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.”- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
    

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80. “A man can’t eat anger for breakfast and sleep with it at night and not suffer damage to his soul.”- Garrison Keillor
    

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

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82. “Anger ventilated often hurries toward forgiveness; and concealed often hardens into revenge.”- Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    

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83. “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
    

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84. “When you are caught up in a destructive emotion, you have lost one of your greatest assets: your independence.”- Dalai Lama
    

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85. “The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.”- Barbara De Angelis
    

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86. “There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”- Patrick Rothfuss
    

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87. “It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly just as it is to be angry with a car that won’t go.”- Bertrand Russell
    

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88. “The strong man is not the good wrestler; the strong man is the only one who controls himself when he is angry.”- Prophet Muhammad
    

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89. “It is wise to direct your anger towards problems — not people; to focus your energies on answers — not excuses.”- William Arthur Ward
    

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90. “The longer I live, the more I observe that carrying around anger is the most debilitating to the person who bears it.”- Katharine Graham
    

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91. “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
    

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92. “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
    

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93. “Usually when people are sad, they don’t do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.”- Malcolm X
    

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94. “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
    

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

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96. “My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world.”- Jack Layton
    

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97. “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
    

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98. “It is a waste of time to be angry about my disability. One has to get on with life and I haven’t done badly. People won’t have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.”- Stephen Hawking
    

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99. “Learn this from me. 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
    

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100. “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
     

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