Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about 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

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

Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.

Babylonian Talmud

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

When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out -- because that's what's inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Greg Evans

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

10.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

11.

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

Secker, Thomas

12.

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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A wave of anger washed over me, anger against myself, at my age at the time, that stupid lyrically age, when a man is too great a riddle to himself to be interested in the riddles outside himself and when other people are mere walking mirrors in which he is amazed to find his own emotions, his own worth.

Kundera, Milan

14.

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

15.

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

Bible

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Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

17.

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

Freud, Sigmund

18.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

22.

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

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

Seneca

24.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Quarles, Francis

25.

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.

26.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

27.

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

Russell, Bertrand

28.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

29.

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

Emily Dickinson

30.

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

Shakespeare, William

31.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

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

Sarnoff, David

33.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

34.

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

Ruskin, John

35.

Let not the sun go down upon your wrath. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

36.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

37.

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.

38.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

39.

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

40.

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

Ellis, Havelock

41.

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

Bible

42.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

43.

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

44.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

45.

Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.

Halifax, Edward F.

46.

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

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One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

48.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

49.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

50.

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

Boyes, John F.