Anger Quotes

Anger quotes are a great resource to help refocus your energy and your anger. They are wonderful to use when introducing anger management techniques or when instructing anger management courses.

These anger sayings have been hand picked to help shine a little perspective on the emotions of one who is angry. Quotes can help us re-assess our emotions so that we are able to react in a more rational manner when we are angry.

So pass these free inspirational quotes on the next time you are helping someone through their anger issues or use them yourself.

Anger Quote Collection

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


"I have learnt through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmuted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmuted into a power which can move the world."
- Mahatma Gandhi


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


"Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor."
- Francis Bacon


"When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear."
- Mark Twain


"When you get angry, they tell you, count to five before you reply. Why should I count to five? It's what happens before you count to five which makes life interesting."
- David Hare


"He who has conquered anger has achieved a great victory in life."
- Mahatma Gandhi


"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

More Anger Quotes and Sayings

"Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor."
- Francis Bacon


"It's my rule never to lose me temper till it would be dethrimental to keep it."
- Sean O' Casey


"At this present moment, I have a strong urge to go over there, wrap both his legs round his neck and stick his suede shoes in his mouth. But I suppose that would only be termed a temporary solution."
- Alan Ayckbourn


"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


"When anger rises, think of the consequences."
- Confucius


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


"First you have to look deeply into the nature of your anger, despair, and suffering to free yourself, so you can be available to others."
- Thich Nhat Hanh


"Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret."
- Laurence J. Peter


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


Hopefully these anger quotations will help improve your anger management techniques.

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