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

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.

Freud, Sigmund

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

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

Greer, Germaine

The best answer to anger is silence.

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

Proverb, Malabar

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

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

Angelis, Barbara De

Whenever you get red in the face, whenever you raise your voice, whenever you get hot under the collar or angry, rebellious or negative in spirit, then know that the spirit of God is leaving you and the spirit of Satan is beginning to take over.

10.

Sticks and stones may break your bones when there's anger to impart. Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart. Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

11.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

12.

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

Thurber, James

13.

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

Proverb

14.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

15.

I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

Barton, Clara

16.

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

Bacon, Francis

17.

When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other.

Gaulle, Charles De

18.

We are confronted by a first danger, the destructiveness of applied atomic energy. And then we are confronted by a second danger, that we do not enough appreciate the first danger.

Swing, Raymond G.

19.

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

20.

What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you.

Dyer, Wayne

21.

However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

Ellis, Havelock

22.

To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.

Watts, Alan W.

23.

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

Proverb

24.

Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.

Shakespeare, William

25.

Akhenaton

26.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

27.

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

Shenstone, William

28.

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

29.

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

Dickinson, Emily

30.

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

31.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

33.

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

Plato

34.

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

35.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

36.

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

37.

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

Emily Dickinson

38.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

39.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

40.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

41.

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

42.

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

Sarnoff, David

43.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

44.

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

Bible

45.

Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, everyone should be serene, slow-pulsed and calm.