Motivational Quotes

Anger

Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.

- Henry, M.

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Secker, Thomas

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

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

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.

Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.

Hull, Bobby

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

I lose my temper, but it's all over in a minute, said the student. So is the hydrogen bomb, I replied. But think of the damage it produces!

Sweeting, George

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

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

Proverb

10.

Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

Quarles, Francis

11.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

12.

Let not the sun go down upon your wrath. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

13.

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

Angelou, Maya

14.

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

Bible

15.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

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

Webster, John

18.

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

Edwards, Tryon

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.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

21.

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

Greg Evans

22.

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

23.

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

Dickinson, Emily

24.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

25.

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

Pope, Alexander

26.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

27.

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

28.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

29.

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

30.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

31.

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

Epictetus

32.

Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.

Wallenda, Karl

33.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Proverb

34.

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

Horace

35.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

36.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

37.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Quarles, Francis

38.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

39.

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

Bible

40.

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

Shaw, George Bernard

41.

Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.

Henry, M.

42.

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

43.

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

44.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

45.

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.

46.

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

Churchill, Winston

47.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

48.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

49.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos