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

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied with small gains, which will come by creative adaptations.

I Ching

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

Bible

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

10.

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

Fuller, Thomas

11.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

12.

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

13.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

14.

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

15.

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.

16.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

17.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

18.

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

Hull, Bobby

19.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

20.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

21.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

22.

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

23.

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

Bible

24.

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

Hugo, Victor

25.

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

26.

Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

Halifax, Edward F.

27.

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

28.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

29.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

30.

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.

31.

Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.

Hillard, G. S.

32.

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

Plato

33.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

34.

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

Shenstone, William

35.

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

36.

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

Churchill, Winston

37.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

38.

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

Edwards, Tryon

39.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

40.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

41.

The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.

Ruskin, John

42.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

43.

We are confronted by a first danger, the destructiveness of applied atomic energy. And then we are confronted by a second danger, that we do not enough appreciate the first danger.

Swing, Raymond G.

44.

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.

45.

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

46.

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

47.

The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.

Freud, Sigmund

48.

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

Sarnoff, David

49.

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

Emily Dickinson

50.

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