Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Emily Dickinson

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Bible

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

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wring, but the coals are.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

Edwards, Tryon

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

10.

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

11.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

12.

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

Laurence J. Peter

13.

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

14.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.

Buddha

15.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

16.

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

Dyer, Wayne

17.

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

Proverb

18.

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

19.

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

Hugo, Victor

20.

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

Shakespeare, William

21.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

23.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

24.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

25.

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

Plato

26.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

27.

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

Bible

28.

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

29.

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

30.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

31.

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.

32.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Renard, Jules

36.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

37.

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

38.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

39.

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

Horace

40.

Actually, the streets are quite safe today, it's the people on them who aren't.

41.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

42.

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

43.

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

Bible

44.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

45.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

46.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

47.

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

48.

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

49.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

50.

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

Gracian, Baltasar