Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Henry Ward Beecher

Best Quotes about Anger

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

The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong.

Mizner, Wilson

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

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

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.

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

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

Akhenaton

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

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Churchill, Winston

14.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

15.

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

16.

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

Shakespeare, William

17.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

18.

Anger makes dull men witty -- but it keeps them poor.

Bacon, Francis

19.

Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.

Fuller, Thomas

20.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

21.

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.

Fuller, Thomas

22.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

23.

When you meet up with a disagreeable person, never allow yourself to be upset. Say to yourself,if a dowdy like that can stand himself all his life, surely I can stand him for a few minutes.

24.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

25.

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

Ruskin, John

26.

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

27.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

28.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

29.

A soft answer truth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger. [Proverbs 15:1]

Bible

30.

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

Fuller, Thomas

31.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

32.

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

33.

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.

34.

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

35.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

36.

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

37.

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.

38.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

39.

The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

40.

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

Shenstone, William

41.

Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

42.

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

Bible

43.

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

44.

He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

Plato

45.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

46.

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

Pope, Alexander

47.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

48.

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

49.

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

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

Francis De Sales, St.