Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

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

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

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

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Hugo, Victor

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

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Sarnoff, David

10.

Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.

Cervantes, Miguel De

11.

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

12.

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

13.

When you meet up with a disagreeable person, never allow yourself to be upset. Say to yourself,if a dowdy like that can stand himself all his life, surely I can stand him for a few minutes.

14.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

15.

The best answer to anger is silence.

16.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

17.

I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

Colby, Frank Moore

18.

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

Bible

19.

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

20.

Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.

Greer, Germaine

21.

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

Emily Dickinson

22.

What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you.

Dyer, Wayne

23.

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

Bible

24.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

25.

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

Thurber, James

26.

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

Fuller, Thomas

27.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

28.

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

Freud, Sigmund

29.

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

Edwards, Tryon

30.

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

31.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

32.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Ellis, Havelock

36.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

37.

The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.

Ruskin, John

38.

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

39.

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.

40.

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

Proverb

41.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

42.

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

Fuller, Thomas

43.

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

44.

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

Bible

45.

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

Secker, Thomas

46.

It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and angry woman. [Proverbs 21:19]

Bible

47.

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

48.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

49.

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

Joubert, Joseph

50.

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