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

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

Bible

I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

Barton, Clara

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

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

Laurence J. Peter

The best answer to anger is silence.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Proverb

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

Bible

10.

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

11.

One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.

Syrus, Publilius

12.

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

Proverb

13.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

14.

If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wring, but the coals are.

Beecher, Henry Ward

15.

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

Shakespeare, William

16.

The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances boldly to meet them head on. The weak man grows agitated. But the superior man stands up to fate, endures resolutely in his inner certainty If ignorant both

I Ching

17.

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

Angelou, Maya

18.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Ellis, Havelock

22.

Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

23.

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

Akhenaton

24.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

25.

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

26.

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

Bible

27.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

28.

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

Epictetus

29.

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

30.

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

Fuller, Thomas

31.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

32.

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

33.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

35.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

36.

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

Plato

37.

Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

38.

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

Pope, Alexander

39.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

40.

Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, everyone should be serene, slow-pulsed and calm.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

41.

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

Horace

42.

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

43.

Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.

Halifax, Edward F.

44.

We are confronted by a first danger, the destructiveness of applied atomic energy. And then we are confronted by a second danger, that we do not enough appreciate the first danger.

Swing, Raymond G.

45.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

46.

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

Bible

47.

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

Baldwin, James

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