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

1.

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

Bible

2.

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

Angelou, Maya

3.

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

Buddha

4.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

5.

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

6.

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

7.

Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

8.

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

Greg Evans

9.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

Carlyle, Thomas

10.

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

Dyer, Wayne

11.

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

Proverb

12.

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

13.

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

14.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

15.

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.

16.

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

Bible

17.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

18.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

19.

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

20.

What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you.

Dyer, Wayne

21.

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.

22.

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

23.

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

Quarles, Francis

24.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

25.

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

26.

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

Gracian, Baltasar

27.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

28.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

29.

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

Seneca

30.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

31.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

32.

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

33.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

34.

One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.

Syrus, Publilius

35.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

36.

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

Mario Puzo

37.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

38.

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

Russell, Bertrand

39.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

40.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

41.

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

Shakespeare, William

42.

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

Thurber, James

43.

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

Bible

44.

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

45.

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

Mckay, David O.

46.

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

George, David Lloyd

47.

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

Renard, Jules

48.

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