Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Greg Evans

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Pope, Alexander

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Thurber, James

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

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

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

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

Churchill, Winston

10.

The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them. [Proverbs 12:6]

Bible

11.

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.

12.

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

Freud, Sigmund

13.

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

Akhenaton

14.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

15.

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

16.

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

Joubert, Joseph

17.

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

18.

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

Bible

19.

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

20.

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

Churchill, Winston

21.

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

Dickinson, Emily

22.

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

23.

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

Dyer, Wayne

24.

Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.

Greer, Germaine

25.

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

Secker, Thomas

26.

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.

27.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

28.

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

Bible

29.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

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.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

32.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

33.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

34.

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.

35.

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

36.

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

Bible

37.

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

38.

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

39.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

40.

Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.

Cervantes, Miguel De

41.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

42.

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

Harris, Sidney J.

43.

Do not suppress it-that would hurt you inside. Do not express it-this would not only hurt you inside, it would cause ripples in your surroundings. What you do is transform it.

Pilgrim, Peace

44.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

45.

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

46.

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

Greg Evans

47.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

48.

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

Webster, John

49.

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

50.

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

Francis De Sales, St.