Motivational Quotes

Anger

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

- Cato The Elder

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

2.

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

Proverb

3.

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

4.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

5.

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

6.

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

Fuller, Thomas

7.

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

Angelou, Maya

8.

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

Boyes, John F.

9.

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

Mckay, David O.

10.

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

11.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

12.

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.

13.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

14.

There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.

Webster, John

15.

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

Bacon, Francis

16.

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

17.

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

Bible

18.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

19.

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

20.

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

21.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

22.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

23.

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

Hull, Bobby

24.

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

Shenstone, William

25.

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

Shaw, George Bernard

26.

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

Bible

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Horace

30.

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

Bible

31.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

32.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

33.

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

34.

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

Baldwin, James

35.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

36.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

37.

Anger is one letter short of danger, Greatest remedy for anger is delay

38.

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

Mizner, Wilson

39.

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

Bible

40.

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

41.

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

Buddha

42.

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

Greer, Germaine

43.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

44.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

45.

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

Pope, Alexander

46.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

47.

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

Churchill, Winston

48.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

49.

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

50.

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