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

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

Aristotle

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

Shakespeare, William

Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

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

Bible

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

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Bible

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

10.

Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.

Hull, Bobby

11.

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

Horace

12.

The best answer to anger is silence.

13.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

14.

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

15.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

Joubert, Joseph

16.

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

Maxim, Samurai

17.

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.

18.

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

Mckay, David O.

19.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

20.

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

21.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

22.

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

Bible

23.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

24.

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

Pope, Alexander

25.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

26.

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.

27.

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

Clarendon

28.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

29.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

30.

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

Akhenaton

31.

The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

32.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

33.

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

Webster, John

34.

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

Seneca

35.

I lose my temper, but it's all over in a minute, said the student. So is the hydrogen bomb, I replied. But think of the damage it produces!

Sweeting, George

36.

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

White, Elwyn Brooks

37.

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

Fuller, Thomas

38.

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

Ruskin, John

39.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

40.

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.

Colton, Charles Caleb

41.

Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.

Greer, Germaine

42.

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

43.

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

44.

One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.

Syrus, Publilius

45.

When you meet up with a disagreeable person, never allow yourself to be upset. Say to yourself,if a dowdy like that can stand himself all his life, surely I can stand him for a few minutes.

46.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

47.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

48.

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

Proverb

49.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George