Motivational Quotes

Anger

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

- Aurelius, Marcus

Best Quotes about Anger

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

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

Bible

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

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

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

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

Bible

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

Proverb

Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.

Henry, M.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

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

Emily Dickinson

11.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

12.

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

Seneca

13.

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

14.

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

15.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

16.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

17.

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

18.

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

Floyd, Pink

19.

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

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.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

22.

Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, everyone should be serene, slow-pulsed and calm.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

23.

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.

Fuller, Thomas

24.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

25.

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.

26.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

27.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

28.

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

Laurence J. Peter

29.

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

Shakespeare, William

30.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

31.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

32.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

33.

A soft answer truth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger. [Proverbs 15:1]

Bible

34.

The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.

Long, Haniel

35.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

36.

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

Boyes, John F.

37.

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

Sarnoff, David

38.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

39.

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

Quarles, Francis

40.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

41.

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

Shakespeare, William

42.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

43.

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.

44.

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

45.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

46.

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

47.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

48.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

49.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.