Motivational Quotes

Anger

Depression is rage spread thin.

- Tillich, Paul

Best Quotes about Anger

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

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

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

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

Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.

Tupper, Martin

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.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

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.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

10.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

11.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

12.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

13.

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

Aurelius, Marcus

14.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

15.

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

Pope, Alexander

16.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

17.

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

Proverb

18.

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

19.

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

Akhenaton

20.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

21.

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

Maxim, Samurai

22.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

23.

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

Shakespeare, William

24.

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

25.

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

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.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

28.

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

Greg Evans

29.

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

Bible

30.

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

Quarles, Francis

31.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

32.

If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.

Epictetus

33.

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

34.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

35.

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.

36.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

37.

Whenever you get red in the face, whenever you raise your voice, whenever you get hot under the collar or angry, rebellious or negative in spirit, then know that the spirit of God is leaving you and the spirit of Satan is beginning to take over.

38.

Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south.

Shakespeare, William

39.

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

Bible

40.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

41.

He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.

Magnus, Saint Albertus

42.

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

Lucan, F. L.

43.

If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself:'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.'When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.

Epictetus

44.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

48.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

49.

Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.

Greer, Germaine

50.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca