Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Freud, Sigmund

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Bible

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

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

Webster, John

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

Floyd, Pink

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

Buddha

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

10.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

11.

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

Shakespeare, William

12.

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

Dickinson, Emily

13.

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

Dyer, Wayne

14.

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

Churchill, Winston

15.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

16.

Whenever you get red in the face, whenever you raise your voice, whenever you get hot under the collar or angry, rebellious or negative in spirit, then know that the spirit of God is leaving you and the spirit of Satan is beginning to take over.

17.

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

18.

I have seen a peaceful expression turn to anger as fast as a whip cracks, and so the look on the face might mean less than what it seems to be.

Erica Eisdorfer

19.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

20.

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

Angelou, Maya

21.

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

Edwards, Tryon

22.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

23.

Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. [Ecclesiastes 7:9]

Bible

24.

The best answer to anger is silence.

25.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

26.

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.

27.

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

Ellis, Havelock

28.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

29.

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

30.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

31.

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

Epictetus

32.

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

33.

Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.

Mckay, David O.

34.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

35.

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

Hugo, Victor

36.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

37.

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

Ruskin, John

38.

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

41.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

42.

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

Proverb

43.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

44.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

45.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

46.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

47.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

48.

Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.

Hillard, G. S.

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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

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The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo