Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Angelou, Maya

Best Quotes about Anger

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

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

Maxim, Samurai

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

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

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

Thurber, James

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

The broad general rule is that a man is about as big as the things that make him angry.

10.

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

Churchill, Winston

11.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

12.

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

Gracian, Baltasar

13.

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

Dickinson, Emily

14.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

15.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

16.

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

Renard, Jules

17.

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

18.

The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them. [Proverbs 12:6]

Bible

19.

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

Buddha

20.

The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence.

Beecher, Henry Ward

21.

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

Shakespeare, William

22.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

23.

The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.

Lucan, F. L.

24.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

25.

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

26.

Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

27.

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

Sarnoff, David

28.

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

29.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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.

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

Fuller, Thomas

32.

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

Bible

33.

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.

34.

To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.

Edwards, Tryon

35.

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

Freud, Sigmund

36.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

37.

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

38.

The best answer to anger is silence.

39.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

40.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

41.

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.

42.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

43.

I have seen a peaceful expression turn to anger as fast as a whip cracks, and so the look on the face might mean less than what it seems to be.

Erica Eisdorfer

44.

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

Seneca

45.

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

Webster, John