Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

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.

2.

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

3.

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

Seneca

4.

There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.

Francis De Sales, St.

5.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

6.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

7.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

8.

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

Webster, John

9.

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

Hugo, Victor

10.

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

11.

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

Bible

12.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

13.

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

Syrus, Publilius

14.

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

Harris, Sidney J.

15.

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

16.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

17.

Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

Seneca

18.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

19.

No one can make us angry. People can say and do things to us but it is still up to us as individuals to do what we want with our emotions in response to those things.

20.

Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.

Tupper, Martin

21.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

22.

I have seen a peaceful expression turn to anger as fast as a whip cracks, and so the look on the face might mean less than what it seems to be.

Erica Eisdorfer

23.

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

Joubert, Joseph

24.

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

25.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Malcolm X

26.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

27.

However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

Ellis, Havelock

28.

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

Boyes, John F.

29.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

30.

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

Laurence J. Peter

31.

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

32.

Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.

Henry, M.

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Churchill, Winston

36.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

37.

The best answer to anger is silence.

38.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

39.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

40.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

41.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

42.

Don't play for safety -- it's the most dangerous thing in the world.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

43.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

44.

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

Sarnoff, David

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Dickinson, Emily

49.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

50.

Actually, the streets are quite safe today, it's the people on them who aren't.