Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Bierce, Ambrose

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Seneca

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

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

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

Proverb

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.

Maxine Waters

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

Bible

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

10.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

11.

Whenever you get red in the face, whenever you raise your voice, whenever you get hot under the collar or angry, rebellious or negative in spirit, then know that the spirit of God is leaving you and the spirit of Satan is beginning to take over.

12.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

13.

The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

Landor, Walter Savage

14.

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.

15.

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Ellis, Havelock

17.

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

18.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

19.

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

Epictetus

20.

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

21.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

22.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

23.

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

Bible

24.

Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.

Hillard, G. S.

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.

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

Angelou, Maya

28.

Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.

Shakespeare, William

29.

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

Fuller, Thomas

30.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

31.

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

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.

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

Hugo, Victor

34.

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

35.

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

Greg Evans

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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

37.

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

Shakespeare, William

38.

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

Laurence J. Peter

39.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

40.

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

Buddha

41.

Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.

Antonius, Marcus

42.

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

Proverb, Malabar

43.

The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong.

Mizner, Wilson

44.

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

Quarles, Francis

45.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

46.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

47.

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

Proverb

48.

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

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

Pope, Alexander

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Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

Akhenaton