Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

Act nothing in a furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Edwards, Tryon

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression. [Proverbs 19:11]

Bible

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

Webster, John

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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.

10.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

11.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

12.

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

Hull, Bobby

13.

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

Greg Evans

14.

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

Plato

15.

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

Epictetus

16.

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

Bible

17.

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.

18.

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

19.

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

20.

Danger -- if you meet it promptly and without flinching -- you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Churchill, Winston

21.

Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

Quarles, Francis

22.

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

Sarnoff, David

23.

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

Laurence J. Peter

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Dyer, Wayne

27.

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

28.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

29.

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

30.

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

Proverb

31.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

32.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

33.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

34.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

35.

I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.

Maxine Waters

36.

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.

37.

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

Bible

38.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

39.

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

40.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

41.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

42.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

43.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

44.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

45.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

46.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

47.

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

Lucan, F. L.

48.

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

49.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

50.

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

Pope, Alexander