Motivational Quotes

Anger

Every man is his own chief enemy.

- Anacharsis

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

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.

2.

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.

3.

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

4.

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.

5.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

6.

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

Harris, Sidney J.

7.

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

Proverb, Malabar

8.

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

9.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

10.

Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

Halifax, Edward F.

11.

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

12.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

13.

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

Hull, Bobby

14.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

15.

The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

Landor, Walter Savage

16.

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

Bible

17.

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

18.

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

Joubert, Joseph

19.

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

20.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

21.

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

Bible

22.

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

23.

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

Webster, John

24.

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

Russell, Bertrand

25.

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

Emily Dickinson

26.

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

Proverb

27.

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.

28.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

29.

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

Plato

30.

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

Epictetus

31.

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

Floyd, Pink

32.

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

Greg Evans

33.

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

Laurence J. Peter

34.

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

Bacon, Francis

35.

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

Shenstone, William

36.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

37.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

38.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

39.

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

Shakespeare, William

40.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

41.

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

Proverb

42.

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.

Cherie Carter-Scott

43.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Angelou, Maya

44.

Anger is one letter short of danger, Greatest remedy for anger is delay

45.

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

Quincey, Thomas De

46.

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

47.

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

Dickinson, Emily

48.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

49.

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

Greer, Germaine

50.

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.