Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Edwards, Tryon

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

2.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

3.

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

Greg Evans

4.

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

Greer, Germaine

5.

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

Baldwin, James

6.

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

Boyes, John F.

7.

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.

8.

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

Dickinson, Emily

9.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

10.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

11.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

12.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

13.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Freud, Sigmund

18.

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

Bacon, Francis

19.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

20.

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

Hugo, Victor

21.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

22.

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

Laurence J. Peter

23.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

24.

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

Bible

25.

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

26.

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

Secker, Thomas

27.

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

28.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

29.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

30.

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

31.

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

Ruskin, John

32.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

33.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

34.

Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. [Ecclesiastes 7:9]

Bible

35.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

36.

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.

37.

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

Maxim, Samurai

38.

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

39.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

40.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

41.

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

Fuller, Thomas

42.

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

43.

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

44.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

45.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

46.

Anger is one letter short of danger, Greatest remedy for anger is delay

47.

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

48.

The best answer to anger is silence.

49.

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

Buddha

50.

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