Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Landor, Walter Savage

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

Shaw, George Bernard

2.

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

Thurber, James

3.

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

Greg Evans

4.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

5.

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

6.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

7.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

8.

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

Bible

9.

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

10.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

11.

The best answer to anger is silence.

12.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

13.

The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong.

Mizner, Wilson

14.

Don't play for safety -- it's the most dangerous thing in the world.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

15.

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

16.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

17.

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

Emily Dickinson

18.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

19.

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

20.

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

Horace

21.

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

Hugo, Victor

22.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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 deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

25.

Nothing is so exhilarating in life as to be shot at with no result.

Churchill, Winston

26.

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

Maxim, Samurai

27.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

28.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

33.

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

Fuller, Thomas

34.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

35.

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

36.

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

Bible

37.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

38.

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

Quarles, Francis

39.

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

Fuller, Thomas

40.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

41.

No one can make us angry. People can say and do things to us but it is still up to us as individuals to do what we want with our emotions in response to those things.

42.

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

Baldwin, James

43.

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

Russell, Bertrand

44.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

45.

To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.

Watts, Alan W.

46.

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

Hull, Bobby

47.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

48.

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

Dyer, Wayne

49.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

50.

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