Quotes for When You're Angry

Words that honor your fire while channeling it toward justice and strength.

14 quotes

“If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.”

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”

— Virginia Woolf

“The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.”

— Marcus Aurelius

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“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”

— Mark Twain

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“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

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“Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.”

— Nelson Mandela

“Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

“Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.”

— Toni Morrison

“We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced.”

— Malala Yousafzai

“Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.”

— Gautama Buddha

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“The emotions in a song—the anger, the rage, the passion—are all there.”

— Eminem

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