Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Francis De Sales, St.

Best Quotes about Anger

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.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

Gracian, Baltasar

The broad general rule is that a man is about as big as the things that make him angry.

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

Mckay, David O.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

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

Plato

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

10.

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

Fuller, Thomas

11.

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

12.

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

Sarnoff, David

13.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

14.

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

15.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

16.

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

Proverb, Malabar

17.

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

18.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

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.

20.

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

Russell, Bertrand

21.

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

Dyer, Wayne

22.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

23.

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

Shaw, George Bernard

24.

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

Proverb

25.

There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.

Webster, John

26.

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

Horace

27.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

28.

A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied with small gains, which will come by creative adaptations.

I Ching

29.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

30.

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

31.

Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.

Henry Ward Beecher

32.

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

Pope, Alexander

33.

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

34.

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.

Kundera, Milan

35.

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

36.

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

Greg Evans

37.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

41.

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

Baldwin, James

42.

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

Fuller, Thomas

43.

Stay out of the road, if you want to grow old.

Floyd, Pink

44.

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.

Beecher, Henry Ward

45.

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.

46.

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

Maxim, Samurai

47.

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

Seneca

48.

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

Proverb