Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Bible

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

Buddha

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Maxim, Samurai

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

Ruskin, John

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Dyer, Wayne

10.

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

11.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

12.

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

Lucan, F. L.

13.

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

Bible

14.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Proverb

15.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

16.

Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.

Antonius, Marcus

17.

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

Hugo, Victor

18.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other.

Gaulle, Charles De

20.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

21.

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

22.

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

Churchill, Winston

23.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

24.

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

25.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

26.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

27.

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

28.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

29.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

30.

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

Bible

31.

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

Mario Puzo

32.

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

33.

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

Plato

34.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

35.

A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied with small gains, which will come by creative adaptations.

I Ching

36.

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

37.

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

Renard, Jules

38.

Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

Akhenaton

39.

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.

40.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

41.

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

42.

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

Webster, John

43.

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

44.

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

Clarendon

45.

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

46.

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

Pope, Alexander

47.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

48.

If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself:'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.'When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.

Epictetus

49.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

50.

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

Colton, Charles Caleb