Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Anger

I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they

White, Elwyn Brooks

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Edwards, Tryon

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

He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.

Magnus, Saint Albertus

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

10.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

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

12.

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

Laurence J. Peter

13.

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

14.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

15.

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

Mario Puzo

16.

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

Floyd, Pink

17.

The best answer to anger is silence.

18.

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

19.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

20.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

21.

My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. [James 1:19-20]

Bible

22.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

23.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

24.

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

25.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

26.

I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

Colby, Frank Moore

27.

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.

28.

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

Proverb

29.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

30.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

31.

Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

Proverb, Malabar

32.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

33.

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

34.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

35.

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

36.

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

Mckay, David O.

37.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

38.

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

Thurber, James

39.

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

40.

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

Epictetus

41.

No one can make us angry. People can say and do things to us but it is still up to us as individuals to do what we want with our emotions in response to those things.

42.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

43.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

44.

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

Secker, Thomas

45.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

46.

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

47.

Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.

Greg Evans

48.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

49.

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

Aristotle

50.

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