Motivational Quotes

Anger

I lose my temper, but it's all over in a minute, said the student. So is the hydrogen bomb, I replied. But think of the damage it produces!

- Sweeting, George

Best Quotes about Anger

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.

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

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

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

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

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

Bible

10.

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

Dyer, Wayne

11.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

12.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

13.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

14.

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

15.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

16.

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

17.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

18.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

19.

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

Bible

20.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

21.

Anger makes dull men witty -- but it keeps them poor.

Bacon, Francis

22.

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

Floyd, Pink

23.

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

Pope, Alexander

24.

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

Gracian, Baltasar

25.

When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out -- because that's what's inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside.

Dyer, Wayne

26.

There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.

Webster, John

27.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

28.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

29.

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

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

Greg Evans

31.

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

Thurber, James

32.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

33.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

34.

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

Sarnoff, David

35.

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

36.

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.

37.

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

Shenstone, William

38.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

39.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

40.

The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.

Freud, Sigmund

41.

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

Proverb, Malabar

42.

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

Ellis, Havelock

43.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

44.

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

Fuller, Thomas

45.

No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.

Brown, John Mason

46.

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

47.

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

Fuller, Thomas

48.

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

49.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

50.

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

Maxim, Samurai