Motivational Quotes

Anger

Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.

- Baldwin, James

Best Quotes about Anger

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. [James 1:19-20]

Bible

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances boldly to meet them head on. The weak man grows agitated. But the superior man stands up to fate, endures resolutely in his inner certainty If ignorant both

I Ching

He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.

Magnus, Saint Albertus

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

Clarendon

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.

Webster, John

10.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

11.

The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

Landor, Walter Savage

12.

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

Angelis, Barbara De

13.

All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.

Paley, Babe

14.

I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

Barton, Clara

15.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

16.

I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they

White, Elwyn Brooks

17.

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

18.

Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.

Tupper, Martin

19.

Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

Quarles, Francis

20.

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.

Dyer, Wayne

22.

Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.

Halifax, Edward F.

23.

No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.

Brown, John Mason

24.

To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.

Edwards, Tryon

25.

Anyone can become angry -- that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way -- this is not easy.

Aristotle

26.

Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

27.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

28.

The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence.

Beecher, Henry Ward

29.

Stay out of the road, if you want to grow old.

Floyd, Pink

30.

Whenever you get red in the face, whenever you raise your voice, whenever you get hot under the collar or angry, rebellious or negative in spirit, then know that the spirit of God is leaving you and the spirit of Satan is beginning to take over.

31.

Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

Seneca

32.

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

Seneca

33.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

34.

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

Quincey, Thomas De

35.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

36.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

37.

The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.

Lucan, F. L.

38.

A wave of anger washed over me, anger against myself, at my age at the time, that stupid lyrically age, when a man is too great a riddle to himself to be interested in the riddles outside himself and when other people are mere walking mirrors in which he is amazed to find his own emotions, his own worth.

Kundera, Milan

39.

Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.

Wallenda, Karl

40.

I have seen a peaceful expression turn to anger as fast as a whip cracks, and so the look on the face might mean less than what it seems to be.

Erica Eisdorfer

41.

Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. [Ecclesiastes 7:9]

Bible

42.

Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger. [Ephesians 4:26]