Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Landor, Walter Savage

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Quarles, Francis

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

Ellis, Havelock

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

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

Bible

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

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

The best answer to anger is silence.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

10.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

11.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

12.

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

13.

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

Shakespeare, William

14.

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.

15.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

16.

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

17.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

18.

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

Proverb, Malabar

19.

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

Proverb

20.

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

Edwards, Tryon

21.

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

Laurence J. Peter

22.

The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

23.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

24.

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

Hull, Bobby

25.

The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life.

Maxim, Samurai

26.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

27.

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

Secker, Thomas

28.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

29.

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

Mckay, David O.

30.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

31.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

32.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

33.

Danger -- if you meet it promptly and without flinching -- you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Churchill, Winston

34.

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

35.

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

36.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

37.

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

Bible

38.

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

Proverb

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Greg Evans

42.

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

Bible

43.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

44.

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

Epictetus

45.

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

Renard, Jules

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Seneca

49.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

50.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German