Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Ruskin, John

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

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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

Proverb

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

10.

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.

11.

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

Bible

12.

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

13.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

14.

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

15.

Beecher, Henry Ward

16.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

17.

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

Shenstone, William

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.

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.

20.

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

21.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

22.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

23.

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

Maxim, Samurai

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

27.

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

28.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

29.

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

Bible

30.

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

Renard, Jules

31.

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.

32.

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

Sarnoff, David

33.

It is better to do thine own duty, however lacking in merit, than to do that of another, even though efficiently. It is better to die doing one's own duty, for to do the duty of another is fraught with danger.

Bhagavad Gita

34.

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.

35.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

36.

There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.

Francis De Sales, St.

37.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

38.

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

39.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

40.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

41.

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.

42.

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

Epictetus

43.

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

44.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Malcolm X

45.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

46.

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

Fuller, Thomas

47.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

48.

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

Bible

49.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

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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