Quotes about anger

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

— Akhenaton

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

It takes two flints to make a fire.

— Louisa May Alcott

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.

— Helen Alfredsson

Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.

— William R. Alger

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

— Barbara De Angelis

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

— Maya Angelou

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

— Marcus Antonius

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

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

— Marcus Aurelius

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

— Marcus Aurelius

Anger cannot be dishonest.

— George R. Bach

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

— Francis Bacon

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

— James Baldwin

Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade.

— Sir James M. Barrie

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.

— Henry Ward Beecher

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

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.

— Henry Ward Beecher

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

— Bible

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

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

— Bible

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

— 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

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

— Bible

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

— Bible

He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.

— Bible

Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. [Ecclesiastes 7:9]

— Bible

Anger rest in the bosom of fools.

— Bible

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

— Bible

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

— Ambrose Bierce

Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.

— H. G. Bohn

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

— John F. Boyes

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

— Buddha

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

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

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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

— Thomas Carlyle

No person is important enough to make me angry.

— Carlos Castaneda

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

— Cato The Elder

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

I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

— Frank Moore Colby

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

— Charles Caleb Colton

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

— Confucius

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.

— William Congreve

Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid at the back of reason, to come to the front when bidden. For once it begins to take control of the mind, it calls just what it does cruelly.

— George William Curtis

He who holds back rising anger like a rolling chariot, him I call a real driver; other people are but holding the reins

— Dhammapada

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

— Emily Dickinson

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

— Phyllis Diller

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

— Wayne Dyer

What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you.

— Wayne Dyer

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.

— Wayne Dyer

Go ahead, make my day.

— Clint Eastwood

To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.

— Tryon Edwards

A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

— Epictetus

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

— St. Francis De Sales

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Sigmund Freud

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

— Thomas Fuller

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

— Thomas Fuller

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

— Thomas Fuller

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

— Indira Gandhi

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

— Mahatma Gandhi

When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other.

— Charles De Gaulle

Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.

— Baltasar Gracian

Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of a certain income can indulge.

— St. Gregory The Great

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

— Edward F. Halifax

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

— Edward F. Halifax

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

— Sidney J. Harris

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.

— M. Henry

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.

— G. S. Hillard

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

— Horace

Anger is a brief lunacy.

— Horace

Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

— Horace

Anger is short madness

— Horace

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

— Horace

Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.

— Bobby Hull

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.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

— Washington Irving

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

— Thomas Jefferson

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

— Joseph Joubert

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.

— Milan Kundera

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

— Walter Savage Landor

When I am angry I can pray well and preach well.

— Martin Luther

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

— Saint Albertus Magnus

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

— Samurai Maxim

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

— David O. Mckay

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

— Wilson Mizner

Every time you get angry, you poison your own system.

— Alfred A. Montapert

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.

— Babe Paley

Do not suppress it-that would hurt you inside. Do not express it-this would not only hurt you inside, it would cause ripples in your surroundings. What you do is transform it.

— Peace Pilgrim

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

— Plato

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

— Proverb

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

— Proverb

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

— Proverb

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

— Proverb

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

— Chinese Proverb

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

— Malabar Proverb