Motivational Quotes

Anger

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Bible

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

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

Proverb

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.

Curtis, George William

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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.

Paley, Babe

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

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

Shaw, George Bernard

10.

No one can make us angry. People can say and do things to us but it is still up to us as individuals to do what we want with our emotions in response to those things.

11.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

12.

Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

Seneca

13.

Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.

Babylonian Talmud

14.

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.

Pilgrim, Peace

15.

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

Bible

16.

Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

17.

Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

Quarles, Francis

18.

Don't play for safety -- it's the most dangerous thing in the world.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

19.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

20.

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

21.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

22.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

23.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

24.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

25.

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

26.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

27.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

28.

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

29.

Nothing is so exhilarating in life as to be shot at with no result.

Churchill, Winston

30.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

31.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

32.

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

Epictetus

33.

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

Plato

34.

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

35.

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

Bible

36.

Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.

Cervantes, Miguel De

37.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Malcolm X

38.

Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much; such men are dangerous. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

39.

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

40.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

41.

The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.

Long, Haniel

42.

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

Mizner, Wilson

43.

Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.

Wallenda, Karl

44.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

45.

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