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.

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

2.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

3.

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

Sarnoff, David

4.

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.

5.

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

Maxim, Samurai

6.

The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.

Freud, Sigmund

7.

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

Quarles, Francis

8.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

9.

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

10.

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

11.

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

Bacon, Francis

12.

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

Dyer, Wayne

13.

Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.

Hillard, G. S.

14.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

15.

My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. [James 1:19-20]

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16.

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

Hugo, Victor

17.

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.

18.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

19.

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

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20.

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

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21.

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

Pope, Alexander

22.

Anger is one letter short of danger, Greatest remedy for anger is delay

23.

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

Akhenaton

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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.

28.

The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them. [Proverbs 12:6]

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29.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

31.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

32.

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

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33.

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

Secker, Thomas

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.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

36.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

37.

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

Angelou, Maya

38.

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

Aurelius, Marcus

39.

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.

40.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

41.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

42.

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

Laurence J. Peter

43.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

44.

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.

45.

Doomed are the hotheads! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, I'm sorry.

Schuller, Robert H.

46.

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

Mizner, Wilson

47.

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

Mckay, David O.

48.

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