Top Anger Quotes By Stoics, Christians, and Contemporary Wise Philosophers

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

– Isaac Asimov

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

-Benjamin Franklin

I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.

– Booker T. Washington

Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance.

– Robert Quillen

Speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.

– Laurence J. Peter

I get angry at a principle, not a person.

– Norman Schwarzkopf

There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.

– Saint Francis de Sales

What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you? You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God.

– James 4:1-2

A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

– Proverbs 15:1

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

– Ephesians 6:4

Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger.

– James 1:19

For the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God.

– James 1:20

A person’s wisdom yields patience; it is to one’s glory to overlook an offense.

– Proverbs 19:11

Don’t let evil get the best of you, but conquer evil by doing good.

– Romans 12:21

Don’t try to get revenge for yourselves, my dear friends, but leave room for God’s wrath. It is written, Revenge belongs to me; I will pay it back, says the Lord.

– Romans 12:19

Don’t let any foul words come out of your mouth. Only say what is helpful when it is needed for building up the community so that it benefits those who hear what you say.

– Ephesians 4:29

Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth

– Matthew 5:5

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

– Marcus Aurelius

The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.

– Marcus Aurelius

Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.

– Epictetus

If you want to determine the nature of anything, entrust it to time: when the sea is stormy, you can see nothing clearly.

– Seneca the Younger