Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

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

Renard, Jules

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.

Fuller, Thomas

He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

Plato

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

Proverb, Malabar

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Thurber, James

10.

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

11.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

12.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

13.

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

Emily Dickinson

14.

Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. [Ecclesiastes 7:9]

Bible

15.

It is better to do thine own duty, however lacking in merit, than to do that of another, even though efficiently. It is better to die doing one's own duty, for to do the duty of another is fraught with danger.

Bhagavad Gita

16.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.

The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.

Lucan, F. L.

18.

Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.

Fuller, Thomas

19.

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

20.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

21.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

22.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

23.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

24.

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

25.

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.

26.

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

Clarendon

27.

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

28.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

29.

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

Baldwin, James

30.

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

Bible

31.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

32.

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

Hugo, Victor

33.

However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

Ellis, Havelock

34.

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

35.

Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much; such men are dangerous. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

36.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

37.

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

Horace

38.

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

39.

Danger -- if you meet it promptly and without flinching -- you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Churchill, Winston

40.

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

Dyer, Wayne

41.

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

Bible

42.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

43.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

44.

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

Bible

45.

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

Epictetus

46.

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

Bible

47.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

48.

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

Hull, Bobby

49.

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

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Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

Sivananda, Sri Swami