Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Proverb

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

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

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

Ellis, Havelock

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.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Bible

10.

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

Thurber, James

11.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

12.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

13.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

15.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

16.

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

Baldwin, James

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.

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

Proverb, Malabar

19.

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

20.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

21.

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

22.

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

Webster, John

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

Dickinson, Emily

24.

Doomed are the hotheads! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, I'm sorry.

Schuller, Robert H.

25.

Do not suppress it-that would hurt you inside. Do not express it-this would not only hurt you inside, it would cause ripples in your surroundings. What you do is transform it.

Pilgrim, Peace

26.

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.

27.

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

Shenstone, William

28.

The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.

Long, Haniel

29.

The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

30.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

31.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

32.

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

33.

He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.

Magnus, Saint Albertus

34.

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

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

Aurelius, Marcus

36.

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

Horace

37.

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

38.

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

Bible

39.

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

40.

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

Boyes, John F.

41.

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

Fuller, Thomas

42.

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

Syrus, Publilius

43.

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.

44.

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

Bible

45.

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

46.

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

Buddha

47.

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

Hull, Bobby

48.

No one is as angry as the person who is wrong.

Proverb

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