Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

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

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

Quincey, Thomas De

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Bible

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

Ellis, Havelock

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

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

10.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

11.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

Joubert, Joseph

12.

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

Sarnoff, David

13.

Stay out of the road, if you want to grow old.

Floyd, Pink

14.

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

Baldwin, James

15.

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

Bible

16.

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

Emily Dickinson

17.

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

18.

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

Edwards, Tryon

19.

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

Colton, Charles Caleb

20.

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

21.

Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

Akhenaton

22.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

23.

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

24.

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

Pope, Alexander

25.

Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.

Wallenda, Karl

26.

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.

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.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

29.

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

30.

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.

31.

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

Fuller, Thomas

32.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

37.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

38.

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

Buddha

39.

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

Maxim, Samurai

40.

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

Bible

41.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

42.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Angelou, Maya

43.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

44.

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

Dickinson, Emily

45.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

46.

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

Hull, Bobby

47.

A wave of anger washed over me, anger against myself, at my age at the time, that stupid lyrically age, when a man is too great a riddle to himself to be interested in the riddles outside himself and when other people are mere walking mirrors in which he is amazed to find his own emotions, his own worth.

Kundera, Milan

48.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

49.

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

50.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner