Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

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

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

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

Bible

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Bierce, Ambrose

When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Bible

10.

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

Greg Evans

11.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

12.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

13.

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.

14.

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

15.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

16.

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

17.

Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.

Henry Ward Beecher

18.

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

Baldwin, James

19.

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

Proverb, Malabar

20.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

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

Laurence J. Peter

22.

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

23.

Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid at the back of reason, to come to the front when bidden. For once it begins to take control of the mind, it calls just what it does cruelly.

Curtis, George William

24.

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

25.

Nothing is so exhilarating in life as to be shot at with no result.

Churchill, Winston

26.

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

Emily Dickinson

27.

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.

28.

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

Plato

29.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

30.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

31.

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

Mario Puzo

32.

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

33.

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

34.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

35.

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

36.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

37.

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

38.

I lose my temper, but it's all over in a minute, said the student. So is the hydrogen bomb, I replied. But think of the damage it produces!

Sweeting, George

39.

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

Hull, Bobby

40.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

41.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

42.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

43.

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

44.

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

45.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

46.

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

Buddha

47.

Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.

Fuller, Thomas

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The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.