Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.

George, David Lloyd

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

Horace

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

Boyes, John F.

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

Greg Evans

Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south.

Shakespeare, William

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

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.

Ruskin, John

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

10.

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.

Alfredsson, Helen

11.

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

Proverb

12.

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.

13.

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

14.

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

Baldwin, James

15.

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

Fuller, Thomas

16.

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

Laurence J. Peter

17.

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

Hugo, Victor

18.

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

Thurber, James

19.

If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself:'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.'When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.

Epictetus

20.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

24.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

25.

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

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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.

Riley, James Whitcomb

27.

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

Fuller, Thomas

28.

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

Shakespeare, William

29.

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

30.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

31.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

32.

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

Secker, Thomas

33.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

34.

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

Dickinson, Emily

35.

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

Proverb, Malabar

36.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

37.

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

Dyer, Wayne

38.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

39.

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

Antonius, Marcus

40.

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.

Hillard, G. S.

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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

42.

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

Proverb

43.

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

Bible

44.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

45.

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