Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

2.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

3.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

4.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

5.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

6.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

7.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

8.

Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.

Greer, Germaine

9.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

10.

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

Pope, Alexander

11.

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

Ruskin, John

12.

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

13.

I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

Colby, Frank Moore

14.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

15.

The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.

George, David Lloyd

16.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

17.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

18.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

19.

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

Thurber, James

20.

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

Shakespeare, William

21.

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

Proverb

22.

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

Epictetus

23.

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

24.

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

Proverb, Malabar

25.

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

26.

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

Aristotle

27.

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

Emily Dickinson

28.

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

Dickinson, Emily

29.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

30.

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

Fuller, Thomas

31.

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

Hugo, Victor

32.

The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.

Freud, Sigmund

33.

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

Churchill, Winston

34.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Bible

38.

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

Plato

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.

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

Syrus, Publilius

41.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

42.

Stay out of the road, if you want to grow old.

Floyd, Pink

43.

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

44.

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

Fuller, Thomas

45.

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

46.

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

Mario Puzo

47.

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