Motivational Quotes

Anger

Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid at the back of reason, to come to the front when bidden. For once it begins to take control of the mind, it calls just what it does cruelly.

- Curtis, George William

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Greer, Germaine

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

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.

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

Maxim, Samurai

Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

10.

As the whirlwind in its fury teareth up trees, and deformeth the face of nature, or as an earthquake in its convulsions overturneth whole cities; so the rage of an angry man throweth mischief around him.

Akhenaton

11.

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

Bible

12.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

14.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

15.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

16.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

17.

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

Russell, Bertrand

18.

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

Edwards, Tryon

19.

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

20.

Stay out of the road, if you want to grow old.

Floyd, Pink

21.

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

22.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

23.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

24.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

25.

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

26.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

27.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

28.

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

Greg Evans

29.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

30.

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

Proverb

31.

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.

32.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

33.

No one can make us angry. People can say and do things to us but it is still up to us as individuals to do what we want with our emotions in response to those things.

34.

Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south.

Shakespeare, William

35.

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

36.

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

Bible

37.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

38.

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

39.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

40.

I used to store my anger and it affected my play. Now I get it out. I'm never rude to my playing partner. I'm very focused on the ball. Then it's over.

Alfredsson, Helen

41.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

42.

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

43.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

44.

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

Epictetus

45.

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

46.

A wave of anger washed over me, anger against myself, at my age at the time, that stupid lyrically age, when a man is too great a riddle to himself to be interested in the riddles outside himself and when other people are mere walking mirrors in which he is amazed to find his own emotions, his own worth.

Kundera, Milan

47.

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

48.

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

Shenstone, William

49.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Quarles, Francis

50.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius