Motivational Quotes

Anger

Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.

- Buddha

Best Quotes about Anger

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.

Long, Haniel

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

Laurence J. Peter

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

Renard, Jules

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

Edwards, Tryon

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Landor, Walter Savage

10.

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

11.

If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wring, but the coals are.

Beecher, Henry Ward

12.

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

Aristotle

13.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

14.

Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, everyone should be serene, slow-pulsed and calm.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

15.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

16.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

17.

Let not the sun go down upon your wrath. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

18.

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

19.

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

Hugo, Victor

20.

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

Seneca

21.

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

22.

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

Shenstone, William

23.

Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.

Mckay, David O.

24.

As the whirlwind in its fury teareth up trees, and deformeth the face of nature, or as an earthquake in its convulsions overturneth whole cities; so the rage of an angry man throweth mischief around him.

Akhenaton

25.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

26.

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

Plato

27.

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

28.

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

Pope, Alexander

29.

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

30.

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.

31.

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

32.

Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

Akhenaton

33.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

38.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

39.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

40.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

41.

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

Epictetus

42.

Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much; such men are dangerous. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

43.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

44.

Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.

Cervantes, Miguel De

45.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

46.

Anger as soon as fed is dead; 'Tis starving makes it fat.

Dickinson, Emily

47.

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.

48.

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

Lucan, F. L.

49.

The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.

Ruskin, John

50.

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

Syrus, Publilius