Motivational Quotes

Anger

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Bible

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

Ellis, Havelock

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

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

Schuller, Robert H.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Malcolm X

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

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

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

10.

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

Bible

11.

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

Emily Dickinson

12.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

13.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

14.

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

Mizner, Wilson

15.

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

16.

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

Greg Evans

17.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

19.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

20.

The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence.

Beecher, Henry Ward

21.

When you meet up with a disagreeable person, never allow yourself to be upset. Say to yourself,if a dowdy like that can stand himself all his life, surely I can stand him for a few minutes.

22.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

23.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

24.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

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

Thurber, James

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Proverb

29.

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

Bible

30.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

31.

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

Ruskin, John

32.

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

Churchill, Winston

33.

Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.

Babylonian Talmud

34.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

35.

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

Sarnoff, David

36.

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

Shakespeare, William

37.

We are confronted by a first danger, the destructiveness of applied atomic energy. And then we are confronted by a second danger, that we do not enough appreciate the first danger.

Swing, Raymond G.

38.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

39.

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

40.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

41.

Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.

Wallenda, Karl

42.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

43.

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