Famous Quotes about Anger (137 Quotations)

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

I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

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

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.

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

It takes two flints to make a fire.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

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

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

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

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

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

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]