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

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

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

No one is as angry as the person who is wrong.

Proverb

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

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Gracian, Baltasar

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

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

10.

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.

11.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

12.

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

Bible

13.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

14.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

15.

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

Renard, Jules

16.

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

Syrus, Publilius

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Baldwin, James

20.

In time of danger it is proper to be alarmed until danger be near at hand; but when we perceive that danger is near, we should oppose it as if we were not afraid.

Hitopadesa

21.

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

Akhenaton

22.

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

George, David Lloyd

23.

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

24.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

25.

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

26.

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

Emily Dickinson

27.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

28.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

29.

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

Bacon, Francis

30.

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

31.

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.

32.

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

Angelou, Maya

33.

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

Dyer, Wayne

34.

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

35.

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

Russell, Bertrand

36.

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

Greg Evans

37.

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

38.

Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

Proverb, Malabar

39.

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

Secker, Thomas

40.

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

Seneca

41.

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

42.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

43.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

44.

Don't play for safety -- it's the most dangerous thing in the world.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

45.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

46.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

47.

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

48.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

49.

I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.

Maxine Waters

50.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb