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

1.

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

Greg Evans

2.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

3.

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

4.

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

5.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

6.

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

7.

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

8.

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

Lucan, F. L.

9.

As the whirlwind in its fury teareth up trees, and deformeth the face of nature, or as an earthquake in its convulsions overturneth whole cities; so the rage of an angry man throweth mischief around him.

Akhenaton

10.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

11.

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

Horace

12.

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

Shakespeare, William

13.

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

Renard, Jules

14.

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

Proverb

15.

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

16.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

17.

I used to store my anger and it affected my play. Now I get it out. I'm never rude to my playing partner. I'm very focused on the ball. Then it's over.

Alfredsson, Helen

18.

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

Webster, John

19.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

20.

Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.

Hull, Bobby

21.

Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.

Beecher, Henry Ward

22.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

23.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

24.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

25.

The best answer to anger is silence.

26.

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

Baldwin, James

27.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

28.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

29.

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

Epictetus

30.

When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

Jefferson, Thomas

31.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

32.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

33.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

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

Freud, Sigmund

35.

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

36.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.

Buddha

37.

All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.

Paley, Babe

38.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

39.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

40.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

41.

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

42.

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

Bible

43.

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

44.

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

Secker, Thomas

45.

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

Sarnoff, David

46.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

47.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

48.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

49.

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

50.

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

Laurence J. Peter