Motivational Quotes

Anger

A soft answer truth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger. [Proverbs 15:1]

- Bible

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

2.

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.

3.

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

Horace

4.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

5.

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

6.

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

7.

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.

8.

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

Thurber, James

9.

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

Aurelius, Marcus

10.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

11.

He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

Plato

12.

Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

Proverb, Malabar

13.

The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

14.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

15.

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

16.

Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.

Greer, Germaine

17.

Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.

Hillard, G. S.

18.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

19.

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

20.

He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.

Proverb

21.

In time of danger it is proper to be alarmed until danger be near at hand; but when we perceive that danger is near, we should oppose it as if we were not afraid.

Hitopadesa

22.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

23.

Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.

Beecher, Henry Ward

24.

The broad general rule is that a man is about as big as the things that make him angry.

25.

What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you.

Dyer, Wayne

26.

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

Secker, Thomas

27.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

28.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.

Buddha

29.

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

Bible

30.

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

Lucan, F. L.

31.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

32.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

33.

Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid at the back of reason, to come to the front when bidden. For once it begins to take control of the mind, it calls just what it does cruelly.

Curtis, George William

34.

Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

Halifax, Edward F.

35.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

36.

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

Proverb

37.

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

Colton, Charles Caleb

38.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

39.

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

Wallenda, Karl

40.

However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

Ellis, Havelock

41.

Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.

Henry, M.

42.

Act nothing in a furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.

Fuller, Thomas

43.

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

Shenstone, William

44.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

Bierce, Ambrose

45.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

46.

No one is as angry as the person who is wrong.

Proverb

47.

Do not suppress it-that would hurt you inside. Do not express it-this would not only hurt you inside, it would cause ripples in your surroundings. What you do is transform it.

Pilgrim, Peace

48.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

49.

One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.

Syrus, Publilius

50.

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

Angelis, Barbara De