Motivational Quotes

Anger

Scornful men bring a city into a snare, but wise men turn away wrath. [Proverbs 29:8]

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Best Quotes about Anger

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

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

Bible

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Shakespeare, William

Anger makes dull men witty -- but it keeps them poor.

Bacon, Francis

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

Epictetus

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

Secker, Thomas

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

My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. [James 1:19-20]

Bible

10.

Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.

Halifax, Edward F.

11.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

12.

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

13.

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

14.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

15.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

16.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Angelou, Maya

17.

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

Greg Evans

18.

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

19.

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

Laurence J. Peter

20.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

21.

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

22.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Baldwin, James

26.

Danger -- if you meet it promptly and without flinching -- you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Churchill, Winston

27.

If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.

Epictetus

28.

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

Thurber, James

29.

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

30.

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.

31.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Proverb

32.

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

Sarnoff, David

33.

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

Pope, Alexander

34.

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

Bible

35.

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

36.

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

Emily Dickinson

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Quarles, Francis

40.

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

41.

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

Shenstone, William

42.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

43.

The broad general rule is that a man is about as big as the things that make him angry.

44.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

Carlyle, Thomas

45.

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

Mario Puzo

46.

The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances boldly to meet them head on. The weak man grows agitated. But the superior man stands up to fate, endures resolutely in his inner certainty If ignorant both

I Ching

47.

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

Seneca

48.

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.

49.

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

50.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German