Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

2.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

3.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

4.

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

5.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

6.

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

7.

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

Horace

8.

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.

9.

Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.

Fuller, Thomas

10.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

11.

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

12.

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

Sarnoff, David

13.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

14.

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

15.

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

Buddha

16.

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

Joubert, Joseph

17.

We are confronted by a first danger, the destructiveness of applied atomic energy. And then we are confronted by a second danger, that we do not enough appreciate the first danger.

Swing, Raymond G.

18.

Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.

Mckay, David O.

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

22.

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

Baldwin, James

23.

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

24.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

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

Greg Evans

26.

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

Bible

27.

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

28.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

29.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

30.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

31.

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.

32.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

33.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

34.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

35.

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

George, David Lloyd

36.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

37.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

38.

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

Mario Puzo

39.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

40.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

41.

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

Boyes, John F.

42.

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

Pope, Alexander

43.

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

44.

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

45.

He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.

Magnus, Saint Albertus

46.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

47.

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.

48.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian