Motivational Quotes

Anger

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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

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

Greer, Germaine

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Henry Ward Beecher

10.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

11.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

12.

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

Akhenaton

13.

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

Syrus, Publilius

14.

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

15.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Malcolm X

16.

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

Bible

17.

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.

18.

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

Joan Lunden

19.

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

20.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

21.

There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.

Francis De Sales, St.

22.

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

23.

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.

24.

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

Hugo, Victor

25.

Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.

Henry, M.

26.

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

Quincey, Thomas De

27.

There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.

Dyer, Wayne

28.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

29.

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

Gracian, Baltasar

30.

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

31.

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

Fuller, Thomas

32.

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

Sarnoff, David

33.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

34.

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

Webster, John

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Renard, Jules

38.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

39.

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

Proverb, Malabar

40.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

41.

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

42.

The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.

George, David Lloyd

43.

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

Bacon, Francis

44.

To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.

Edwards, Tryon

45.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Plato

49.

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

Thurber, James

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

Proverb