Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Anger

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

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

Mario Puzo

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

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

Shenstone, William

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

The best answer to anger is silence.

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

No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.

Brown, John Mason

10.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

11.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

12.

Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.

Baldwin, James

13.

The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

15.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

16.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

17.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

18.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

19.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

20.

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

Shakespeare, William

21.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

22.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

Joubert, Joseph

23.

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

Dickinson, Emily

24.

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

Dyer, Wayne

25.

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

Laurence J. Peter

26.

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

Mizner, Wilson

27.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

28.

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

Akhenaton

29.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

30.

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

Churchill, Winston

31.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

32.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

33.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

34.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

35.

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

Epictetus

36.

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

Bible

37.

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

Russell, Bertrand

38.

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

Thurber, James

39.

I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

Barton, Clara

40.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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

42.

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

43.

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

Fuller, Thomas

44.

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

45.

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

Hugo, Victor

46.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

47.

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

Quarles, Francis

48.

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

Proverb

49.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

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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