Motivational Quotes

Anger

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

- Epictetus

Best Quotes about Anger

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

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

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

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

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Horace

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

George, David Lloyd

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

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

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

10.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

11.

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

Epictetus

12.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

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.

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

16.

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

Bible

17.

Danger -- if you meet it promptly and without flinching -- you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Churchill, Winston

18.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

19.

The best answer to anger is silence.

20.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

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

Bible

22.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

23.

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

Baldwin, James

24.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

25.

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

26.

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

27.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

28.

What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you.

Dyer, Wayne

29.

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.

30.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

31.

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

32.

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

Ruskin, John

33.

The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances boldly to meet them head on. The weak man grows agitated. But the superior man stands up to fate, endures resolutely in his inner certainty If ignorant both

I Ching

34.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

35.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

36.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

37.

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

Angelou, Maya

38.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

39.

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

Dyer, Wayne

40.

Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.

Mario Puzo

41.

In time of danger it is proper to be alarmed until danger be near at hand; but when we perceive that danger is near, we should oppose it as if we were not afraid.

Hitopadesa

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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.

45.

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

Ellis, Havelock

46.

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

Shakespeare, William

47.

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.

48.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

49.

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

Russell, Bertrand

50.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre