Anger is the most negative virtue that can upset both the receiver and giver. Here’s the list of best 100 anger quotes to help you manage and control it. These anger quotes will make you more aware about yourself and inspire you to be calm as well as overcome and avoid anger as much as possible.

Anger Quotes

1. Anger is a short madness. – Horace

2. Anger’s not a good emotion. – Lincoln Chafees

3. He who angers you conquers you. – Elizabeth Kenny

4. Anger is one letter short of danger. – Eleanor Roosevelt

5. The anger of the prudent never shows.

6. Getting angry doesn’t solve anything. – Grace Kelly

7. A man in a passion, rides a mad horse.

8. Violent anger makes me physically ill. – Langston Hughes

9. Anger is one of the sinews of the soul. – Thomas Fuller

10. The greatest remedy for anger is delay. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

11. Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools. – Albert Einstein

12. Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight. – William Congreve

13. Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. – Benjamin Franklin

14. You can’t shake hands with a clenched fist. – Indira Gandhi

15. One of man’s greatest obligations is anger. – Nikos Kazantzakis

16. When anger rises, think of the consequences. – Confucius

17. The sharpest sword is a word spoken in wrath.

18. Anger is what makes a clear mind seem clouded. – Kazi Shams

19. I get angry about things, then go on and work. – Toni Morrison

20. Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger. – Abraham Cahan

21. Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper. – Kahlil Gibran

22. Expressing anger is a form of public littering. – Willard Gaylin

23. A hand ready to hit, may cause you great trouble.

24. When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear. – Mark Twain

25. Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance. – Beverly Sills

26. The opposite of anger is not calmness, its empathy. – Mehmet Oz

27. When you learn that a truth is a lie, anger follows. – Grace Slick

28. If you kick a stone in anger you will hurt your foot. – Korean Proverb

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

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

31. I’ve never felt that anger is a very powerful emotion. – John Hurt

32. Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath. – Eckhart Tolle

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

34. Life is precious and there’s not a lot of room for anger. – Fran Drescher

35. Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep. – Mahatma Gandhi

36. Keep your temper. A decision made in anger is never sound. – Ford Frick

37. Anger is often more hurtful than the injury that caused it.

38. There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust. – Saint Francis de Sales

39. To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves. – Alexander Pope

40. Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one. – Benjamin Franklin

41. He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing. – Sallust

42. Anger… it’s a paralyzing emotion. You can’t get anything done. – Toni Morrison

43. Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one. – George Savile

44. You can survive with anger, but you can’t live with it forever. – Ariel Dorfman

45. Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding. – Mahatma Gandhi

46. Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

47. There’s nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively. – Wayne Dyer

48. Sometimes with anger you can be much more dangerous than with skill. – Mathieu Amalric

49. An angry people cannot create anything that is not imbued with anger. – John McAfee

50. People won’t have time for you if you are always angry or complaining. – Stephen Hawking

51. I believe anger is a wasted emotion, and I don’t like to waste emotions. – Jim Webb

52. Do not teach your children never to be angry; teach them how to be angry. – Lyman Abbott

53. I don’t usually lose my temper, but if I get angry, it’s true – I’m scary. – Eva Mendes

54. I think, often, when you are in just a lot of pain, it comes out as anger. – Nell Hudson

55. Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one’s ability to persuade. – Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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

57. Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you. – G. M. Trevelyan

58. Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong. – Baltasar Gracian

59. Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge. – George William Curtis

60. Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up. – Mahatma Gandhi

61. When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred. – Thomas Jefferson

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

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

64. Anger has a way of seeping into every other emotion and planting itself in there. – Dane Cook

65. Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you are. – Cherie Carter-Scott

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

67. Americans are slow to anger, but once they do get angry, they are impossible to stop. – Kathleen Troia McFarland

68. Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

70. There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot. – Plato

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

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

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

74. 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

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

76. Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world. – William Shenstone

77. It is wise to direct your anger towards problems – not people; to focus your energies on answers – not excuses. – William Arthur Ward

78. 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

79. I don’t think your ability to fight has anything to do with how big you are. It’s to do with how much anger is in you. – Amy Winehouse

80. 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

81. A lot of artists think they want anger. But a real, strong, bitter anger occupies the mind, leaving no room for creativity. – David Lynch

82. 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

83. 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

84. 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

85. 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

86. 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

87. 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

88. Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night; the continuance of anger is hatred, the continuance of hatred turns malice. – Francis Quarles

89. 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

90. 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

91. 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

92. Acting in anger and hatred throughout my life, I frequently precipitated what I feared most, the loss of friendships and the need to rely upon the very people I’d abused. – Luke Ford

93. 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

94. 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

95. 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

96. There’s a reason why anger, fear, and hatred are paths to the dark side: they all spring from a single source – the same source as a certain flavor of love. A dangerously sweet, addictive flavor. – Matthew Stover

97. Something my mum taught me years and years and years ago, is life’s just too short to carry around a great bucket-load of anger and resentment and bitterness and hatreds and all that sort of stuff. – Kevin Rudd

98. 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

99. A lot of people think they should be happy all the time. But the writer understands you need both. You need the whole piano: the richness of the whole human experience. Depression, suffering and anger are all part of being human. – Janet Fitch

100. 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