Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Mizner, Wilson

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Greg Evans

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Horace

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

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

Seneca

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

10.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

11.

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

Dyer, Wayne

12.

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.

13.

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

14.

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

Syrus, Publilius

15.

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

Shenstone, William

16.

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

Russell, Bertrand

17.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

18.

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.

19.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

20.

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

Thurber, James

21.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

22.

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

23.

The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

24.

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

Bible

25.

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

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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

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

Bible

28.

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

29.

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

Proverb

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Dickinson, Emily

33.

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

Shakespeare, William

34.

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.

35.

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

Bible

36.

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

Proverb

37.

Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.

Wallenda, Karl

38.

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

Churchill, Winston

39.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

40.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

41.

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

42.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

43.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

44.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

45.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.

Mckay, David O.

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

Secker, Thomas

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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

49.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

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We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre