Motivational Quotes

Anger

Anyone can become angry -- that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way -- this is not easy.

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Bible

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

Bacon, Francis

The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Do not suppress it-that would hurt you inside. Do not express it-this would not only hurt you inside, it would cause ripples in your surroundings. What you do is transform it.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Bible

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

Bible

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

Emily Dickinson

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

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.

10.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

11.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

12.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

13.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

14.

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.

15.

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

16.

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

Greg Evans

17.

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

Pope, Alexander

18.

It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.

Riley, James Whitcomb

19.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

20.

In time of danger it is proper to be alarmed until danger be near at hand; but when we perceive that danger is near, we should oppose it as if we were not afraid.

Hitopadesa

21.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

22.

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

Shakespeare, William

23.

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

24.

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.

25.

There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.

Dyer, Wayne

26.

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

27.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

28.

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

Churchill, Winston

29.

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

30.

Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.

Hillard, G. S.

31.

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

32.

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.

33.

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

Joubert, Joseph

34.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

35.

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

Syrus, Publilius

36.

If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wring, but the coals are.

Beecher, Henry Ward

37.

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

38.

The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong.

Mizner, Wilson

39.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

40.

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

Bible

41.

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

Lucan, F. L.

42.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

43.

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

Horace

44.

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

Greer, Germaine

45.

Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.

Mario Puzo

46.

Doomed are the hotheads! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, I'm sorry.

Schuller, Robert H.

47.

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

48.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

49.

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

50.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De