Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Anger

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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

Proverb

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

Proverb

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

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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.

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

Horace

11.

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

Mario Puzo

12.

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

Lucan, F. L.

13.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

15.

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

16.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

17.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

18.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

19.

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

20.

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

Bible

21.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

22.

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

Shenstone, William

23.

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

24.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

25.

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

Hugo, Victor

26.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

27.

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

Greg Evans

28.

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

Fuller, Thomas

29.

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.

30.

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

Quarles, Francis

31.

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

Maxim, Samurai

32.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

33.

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

Bible

34.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

35.

Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

Quarles, Francis

36.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

37.

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

Dyer, Wayne

38.

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.

39.

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

40.

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

Plato

41.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

42.

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

Boyes, John F.

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.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

45.

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

Buddha

46.

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

Quincey, Thomas De

47.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

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.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

50.

Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

Proverb, Malabar