Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Colton, Charles Caleb

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

2.

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

3.

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

4.

To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.

Watts, Alan W.

5.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

6.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

7.

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

Joubert, Joseph

8.

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

Bacon, Francis

9.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

10.

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

Boyes, John F.

11.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

12.

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

Bible

13.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

14.

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

Fuller, Thomas

15.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

16.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

17.

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

Bible

18.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

19.

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

20.

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

Angelis, Barbara De

21.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

22.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

23.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

24.

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

25.

The best answer to anger is silence.

26.

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

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.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

29.

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

Plato

30.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

31.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

32.

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

Renard, Jules

33.

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

Bible

34.

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

35.

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

Greg Evans

36.

Don't play for safety -- it's the most dangerous thing in the world.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

37.

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

38.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

39.

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

40.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

41.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

42.

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

Secker, Thomas

43.

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

Akhenaton

44.

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

Epictetus

45.

The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life.

Maxim, Samurai

46.

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

47.

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

Bible

48.

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

Mario Puzo

49.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

50.

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