Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Boyes, John F.

Best Quotes about Anger

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

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

Harris, Sidney J.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

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

Lucan, F. L.

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

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

The best answer to anger is silence.

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Bible

10.

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

Proverb

11.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

12.

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.

13.

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

Proverb

14.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

15.

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

Seneca

16.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

17.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

18.

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

19.

The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

20.

To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.

Watts, Alan W.

21.

Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

22.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

23.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

24.

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

Mckay, David O.

25.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

26.

To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.

Edwards, Tryon

27.

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

George, David Lloyd

28.

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

Proverb, Malabar

29.

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

Bacon, Francis

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

34.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

35.

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

36.

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

37.

Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

Quarles, Francis

38.

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

Mario Puzo

39.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

40.

Anyone can become angry -- that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way -- this is not easy.

Aristotle

41.

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.

42.

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

43.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

44.

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

Laurence J. Peter

45.

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

Churchill, Winston

46.

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

47.

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.

48.

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

Epictetus

49.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

50.

He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

Plato