Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.

Cervantes, Miguel De

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.

Brown, John Mason

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

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.

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

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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Sarnoff, David

10.

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

11.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

12.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

13.

However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

Ellis, Havelock

14.

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

Proverb, Malabar

15.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

16.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

18.

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

Seneca

19.

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

20.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

21.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

22.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

23.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

24.

It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.

Riley, James Whitcomb

25.

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

Horace

26.

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

27.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

28.

Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much; such men are dangerous. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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.

34.

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

Secker, Thomas

35.

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

Bible

36.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

37.

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

Fuller, Thomas

38.

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

Bible

39.

The best answer to anger is silence.

40.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Proverb

41.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

42.

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

Plato

43.

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

44.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

45.

By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned; By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned.

Pope, Alexander

46.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

47.

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

48.

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

Bible

49.

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

George, David Lloyd

50.

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