Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Landor, Walter Savage

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

Anger is one letter short of danger, Greatest remedy for anger is delay

2.

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

Shakespeare, William

3.

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

Secker, Thomas

4.

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

Emily Dickinson

5.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

6.

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

7.

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

Proverb

8.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

9.

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

10.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Quarles, Francis

11.

Sticks and stones may break your bones when there's anger to impart. Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart. Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

12.

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

13.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

14.

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

Greg Evans

15.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

16.

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

Greer, Germaine

17.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

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

Baldwin, James

19.

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

20.

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

Thurber, James

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Buddha

24.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

25.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

26.

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.

27.

Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

28.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

29.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

30.

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

Proverb

31.

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

Bible

32.

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

33.

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

Renard, Jules

34.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

35.

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

Boyes, John F.

36.

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

Shakespeare, William

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

40.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

41.

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

Shenstone, William

42.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

43.

Actually, the streets are quite safe today, it's the people on them who aren't.

44.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

45.

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

46.

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

Plato

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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.

50.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul