Motivational Quotes

Anger

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Anger

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

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Dyer, Wayne

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Proverb

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

Bierce, Ambrose

The best answer to anger is silence.

There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.

Webster, John

10.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

11.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

12.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

13.

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

Shenstone, William

14.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

15.

Nothing is so exhilarating in life as to be shot at with no result.

Churchill, Winston

16.

A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied with small gains, which will come by creative adaptations.

I Ching

17.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

18.

Scornful men bring a city into a snare, but wise men turn away wrath. [Proverbs 29:8]

Bible

19.

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

Bible

20.

Act nothing in a furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.

Fuller, Thomas

21.

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.

22.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

23.

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

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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

25.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

26.

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

Joubert, Joseph

27.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

30.

Sticks and stones may break your bones when there's anger to impart. Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart. Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

31.

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

Seneca

32.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

33.

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

34.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

35.

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

Emily Dickinson

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Freud, Sigmund

39.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

40.

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

Epictetus

41.

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

Ruskin, John

42.

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

43.

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

44.

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.

Cherie Carter-Scott

45.

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

46.

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

Shakespeare, William

47.

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

Ellis, Havelock

48.

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

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