Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Bierce, Ambrose

Best Quotes about Anger

The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them. [Proverbs 12:6]

Bible

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

Jefferson, Thomas

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

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

When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other.

Gaulle, Charles De

Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.

Hull, Bobby

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.

Cherie Carter-Scott

Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.

Greg Evans

10.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

11.

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.

12.

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

Bible

13.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

Carlyle, Thomas

14.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

15.

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

16.

Scornful men bring a city into a snare, but wise men turn away wrath. [Proverbs 29:8]

Bible

17.

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

Fuller, Thomas

18.

When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out -- because that's what's inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside.

Dyer, Wayne

19.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

20.

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

Buddha

21.

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

Russell, Bertrand

22.

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.

Fuller, Thomas

23.

The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.

Freud, Sigmund

24.

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

Lucan, F. L.

25.

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

26.

Anger makes dull men witty -- but it keeps them poor.

Bacon, Francis

27.

I used to store my anger and it affected my play. Now I get it out. I'm never rude to my playing partner. I'm very focused on the ball. Then it's over.

Alfredsson, Helen

28.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

29.

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

Bible

30.

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

31.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

32.

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.

Colton, Charles Caleb

33.

Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.

Henry Ward Beecher

34.

I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.

Maxine Waters

35.

Doomed are the hotheads! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, I'm sorry.

Schuller, Robert H.

36.

Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.

Shakespeare, William

37.

Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

38.

If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.

Epictetus

39.

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

40.

Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.

Antonius, Marcus

41.

By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned; By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned.

Pope, Alexander

42.

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

43.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

44.

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

Greer, Germaine

45.

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

46.

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

47.

Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.

Fuller, Thomas

48.

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

49.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

50.

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

Seneca