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

1.

Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.

Antonius, Marcus

2.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

3.

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

Freud, Sigmund

4.

No one is as angry as the person who is wrong.

Proverb

5.

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

Emily Dickinson

6.

Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.

Shakespeare, William

7.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

8.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

9.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

10.

Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.

Henry, M.

11.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

12.

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

13.

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

Bible

14.

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

15.

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

Secker, Thomas

16.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

17.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

18.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

19.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

20.

Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

21.

Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.

Tupper, Martin

22.

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

Ellis, Havelock

23.

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

Hull, Bobby

24.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

25.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

26.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

27.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

28.

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

Bacon, Francis

29.

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

Fuller, Thomas

30.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

32.

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

Bible

33.

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

34.

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

Proverb

35.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

36.

If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself:'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.'When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.

Epictetus

37.

Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.

Fuller, Thomas

38.

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

Shakespeare, William

39.

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

40.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

41.

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

Russell, Bertrand

42.

When you meet up with a disagreeable person, never allow yourself to be upset. Say to yourself,if a dowdy like that can stand himself all his life, surely I can stand him for a few minutes.

43.

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

44.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

45.

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

46.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

47.

When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other.