Inspirational Quotes on Anger

“Abused patience turns to fury.”

“There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart.”

“The meek are not those who are never at all angry, for such are insensible; but those who, feeling anger, control it, and are angry only when they ought to be. Meekness excludes revenge, irritability, morbid sensitiveness, but not self-defence, or a quiet and steady maintenance of right.”

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

“The son of Peleus pressed on in search of glory, bespattering his unconquerable hands with gore.”

“The weakest and most timorous are the most revengeful and implacable.”

“There are as many kinds of anger as there are of the sunsets with which they ought to end”

“Anger and stupidity are near of kin, and when a man whose mental movements are naturally deliberate is suddenly spurred, he is in great danger of acting the fool.”

“Anger is one of the sinews of the soul. He who wants it hath a maimed mind.”

“Anger is short-lived in a good man.”

“Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.”

“If a man has a quarrelsome temper, let him alone. The world will soon find him employment. He will soon meet with some one stronger than himself, who will repay him better than you can. A man may fight duels all his life, if he is disposed to quarrel.”

“When you resort to shouting in conflict, you are reacting in the flesh. You have lost control of the only person you can control: yourself.”

“If we would be angry and not sin (says one), we must be angry at nothing but sin; and we should be more jealous for the glory of God than for any interest or reputation of our own.”

“The anger of a meek man is like fire struck out of steel, hard to be got out, and when got out, soon gone. The meek enjoy almost a perpetual Sabbath.”

“Wise anger is like fire from the flint; there is a great ado to bring it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.”

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

“I never work better than when I am inspired by anger; for when I am angry, I can write, pray, and preach well, for then my whole temperament is quickened, my understanding sharpened, and all mundane vexations and temptations depart.”

“The proud man hath no God; the envious man hath no neighbor; the angry man hath not himself. What good, then, in being a man, if one has neither himself nor a neighbor nor God.”

“So there is such a thing as perfect hatred, just as there is such a thing as righteous anger. But it is a hatred for God's enemies, not our own enemies. It is entirely free of all spite, rancor and vindictiveness, and is fired only by love for God's honor and glory.”