Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Angelou, Maya

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Harris, Sidney J.

The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

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

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bible

Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Angelou, Maya

10.

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

Proverb

11.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

13.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

14.

Anger is one letter short of danger, Greatest remedy for anger is delay

15.

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

16.

Anyone can become angry -- that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way -- this is not easy.

Aristotle

17.

Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

Akhenaton

18.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

19.

Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.

Mario Puzo

20.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

21.

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

Bible

22.

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

Seneca

23.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

24.

It is better to do thine own duty, however lacking in merit, than to do that of another, even though efficiently. It is better to die doing one's own duty, for to do the duty of another is fraught with danger.

Bhagavad Gita

25.

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

26.

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

27.

Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.

Hillard, G. S.

28.

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

Hugo, Victor

29.

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

Shakespeare, William

30.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

31.

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

Mckay, David O.

32.

I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

Barton, Clara

33.

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

Mizner, Wilson

34.

Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.

Antonius, Marcus

35.

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

Baldwin, James

36.

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

37.

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

Churchill, Winston

38.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

39.

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

Shenstone, William

40.

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.

41.

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

Churchill, Winston

42.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

43.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

44.

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

Bible

45.

He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

Plato

46.

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.

47.

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

Emily Dickinson

48.

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

49.

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

50.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius