Motivational Quotes

Anger

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

- Joubert, Joseph

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

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

2.

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.

3.

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

4.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

Joubert, Joseph

5.

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

Fuller, Thomas

6.

Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

Quarles, Francis

7.

To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.

Edwards, Tryon

8.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

9.

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

Emily Dickinson

10.

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

11.

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

Greg Evans

12.

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

Plato

13.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

14.

Stay out of the road, if you want to grow old.

Floyd, Pink

15.

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

16.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

17.

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

Bible

18.

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

Angelou, Maya

19.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

20.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

21.

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

Hull, Bobby

22.

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

Epictetus

23.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.

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

Shakespeare, William

25.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

26.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

27.

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

Churchill, Winston

28.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

29.

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

Mario Puzo

30.

I used to store my anger and it affected my play. Now I get it out. I'm never rude to my playing partner. I'm very focused on the ball. Then it's over.

Alfredsson, Helen

31.

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

Boyes, John F.

32.

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

33.

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

Proverb

34.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

35.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

36.

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

37.

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

Buddha

38.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

39.

Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.

Wallenda, Karl

40.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

41.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

42.

Do not suppress it-that would hurt you inside. Do not express it-this would not only hurt you inside, it would cause ripples in your surroundings. What you do is transform it.

Pilgrim, Peace

43.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

44.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

45.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

46.

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

Baldwin, James

47.

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

Quarles, Francis

48.

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.

49.

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

Mizner, Wilson

50.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De