Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Horace

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Bible

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

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

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

Bible

The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life.

Maxim, Samurai

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

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

Buddha

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

10.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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.

Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.

Tupper, Martin

13.

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

Pope, Alexander

14.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

15.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

16.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

17.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

18.

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

Horace

19.

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

20.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

21.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

22.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

23.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

24.

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

Russell, Bertrand

25.

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

Akhenaton

26.

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

Bible

27.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

28.

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

29.

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.

30.

Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.

Shakespeare, William

31.

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

32.

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.

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

34.

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.

35.

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.

36.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

37.

Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.

Baldwin, James

38.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

39.

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

Angelou, Maya

40.

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

41.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

42.

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

43.

When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other.

Gaulle, Charles De

44.

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

Laurence J. Peter

45.

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

Bible

46.

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

47.

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

Shakespeare, William

48.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

49.

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

Proverb

50.

Anyone can become angry -- that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way -- this is not easy.

Aristotle