30+ Angry Quotes To Help Control Yourself

Angry is an adjective that describes a feeling of strong displeasure, annoyance, or hostility towards someone or something. When someone is angry, they may show signs of frustration, irritability, and aggression. The degree of anger can vary from mild irritation to intense fury. People can become angry for various reasons such as feeling disrespected, mistreated, frustrated, or threatened. It is important to manage anger in a healthy way to avoid harmful or destructive behaviors.

Angry Quotes

1. “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

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

3. “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

4. “In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together.”
– Margaret J. Wheatley

5. “Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It’s beyond me.”
– Zora Neale Hurston

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

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

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

9. “In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
– Douglas Adams

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

11. “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

12. “Life is too short to be angry or sad for long.”
– Alphonso Davies

13. “Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.”
– William Congreve

14. “An angry father is most cruel towards himself.”
– Publilius Syrus

15. “Don’t get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.”
– Richard M. Nixon

16. “I get angry about things, then go on and work.”
– Toni Morrison

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

18. “When you don’t manage your life well, you become angry and frustrated as things don’t go as intended, and our bad mood is a sign showing we were not able to resolve the conflict.”
– Jorge Bucay

19. “Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.”
– Sigmund Freud

20. “I’m not as angry as I used to be. But I can get in touch with that anger pretty quickly if I feel my space is being invaded or somebody is not treating me with the respect that I think I want.”
– Samuel L. Jackson

21. “When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man’s life.”
– Marcus Aurelius

22. “It’s practically impossible to look at a penguin and feel angry.”
– Joe Moore

23. “Often people ask how I manage to be happy despite having no arms and no legs. The quick answer is that I have a choice. I can be angry about not having limbs, or I can be thankful that I have a purpose. I chose gratitude.”
– Nick Vujicic

24. “I am a nice human, but I’ve also got Italian in my family. My mom’s side is Italian and my mom is a very scary human being. I get a lot of that intensity and snap straight into it from her. She’s legit terrifying. Lovely girl. Lovely mother but when she gets angry, she’s absolutely terrifying. She’s a damn monster.”
– Rhea Ripley

25. “Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the ANC’s military wing. When he was released, he surprised everyone because he was talking about reconciliation and forgiveness and not about revenge.”
– Desmond Tutu

26. “Anger is wonderful. It keeps you going. I’m angry about bankers. About the government.”
– Terry Pratchett

27. “When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.”
– Charles de Gaulle

28. “Sometimes you have to laugh to keep from crying or getting overly angry or to maintain control.”
– Dennis Haysbert

29. “Nobody’s angry all the time, unless you’re a psycho.”
– Brian Azzarello

30. “I have been to anger management twice. After the first session the lady was like, ‘Baby, you don’t seem that angry at all. You seem like a really nice guy.’”
– Kid Rock

31. “Youth is impulsive. When our young men grow angry at some real or imaginary wrong, and disfigure their faces with black paint, it denotes that their hearts are black, and that they are often cruel and relentless, and our old men and old women are unable to restrain them. Thus it has ever been.”
– Chief Seattle

32. “There’s no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there’s no excuse for boredom, ever.”
– Viggo Mortensen