Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Landor, Walter Savage

Best Quotes about Anger

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

The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression. [Proverbs 19:11]

Bible

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

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

Hull, Bobby

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Bible

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

Landor, Walter Savage

10.

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

Bible

11.

The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

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

13.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

14.

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

15.

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

16.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

17.

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

18.

The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.

George, David Lloyd

19.

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

Ellis, Havelock

20.

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

Bible

21.

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

22.

A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied with small gains, which will come by creative adaptations.

I Ching

23.

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

Syrus, Publilius

24.

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

25.

It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.

Riley, James Whitcomb

26.

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

Baldwin, James

27.

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

Shakespeare, William

28.

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.

29.

Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south.

Shakespeare, William

30.

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

Renard, Jules

31.

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

Secker, Thomas

32.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

33.

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

Laurence J. Peter

34.

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

Harris, Sidney J.

35.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

36.

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

Dyer, Wayne

37.

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

Thurber, James

38.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

39.

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

Ruskin, John

40.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

41.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

46.

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

Fuller, Thomas

47.

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

Greg Evans

48.

It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and angry woman. [Proverbs 21:19]