Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Mckay, David O.

Best Quotes about Anger

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

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

Churchill, Winston

A wave of anger washed over me, anger against myself, at my age at the time, that stupid lyrically age, when a man is too great a riddle to himself to be interested in the riddles outside himself and when other people are mere walking mirrors in which he is amazed to find his own emotions, his own worth.

Kundera, Milan

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Shaw, George Bernard

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Angelou, Maya

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

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.

Fuller, Thomas

Stay out of the road, if you want to grow old.

Floyd, Pink

10.

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

Proverb, Malabar

11.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

12.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

13.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

14.

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

Proverb

15.

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

Proverb

16.

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

Ellis, Havelock

17.

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

18.

Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

19.

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

Bible

20.

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

Bible

21.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

22.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

23.

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

Bible

24.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

25.

The best answer to anger is silence.

26.

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

Russell, Bertrand

27.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

31.

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

Pope, Alexander

32.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

33.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

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.

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

36.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

37.

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

Shakespeare, William

38.

Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

Seneca

39.

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

Secker, Thomas

40.

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

41.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

42.

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

Bible

43.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

44.

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

45.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

46.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

47.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

48.

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