Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Laurence J. Peter

Best Quotes about Anger

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

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

Bible

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Buddha

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

Shaw, George Bernard

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

Landor, Walter Savage

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.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

12.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

13.

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

Plato

14.

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

15.

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

16.

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

Joubert, Joseph

17.

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

Laurence J. Peter

18.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

19.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

20.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

21.

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

Dyer, Wayne

22.

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.

23.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

24.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

25.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

26.

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

Bible

27.

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

George, David Lloyd

28.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.

Ruskin, John

30.

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

Dickinson, Emily

31.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

32.

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

Bacon, Francis

33.

The best answer to anger is silence.

34.

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

Bible

35.

The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.

Long, Haniel

36.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

37.

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

Fuller, Thomas

38.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

39.

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

Proverb, Malabar

40.

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

Mario Puzo

41.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

42.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

43.

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

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 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

46.

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

47.

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

Dyer, Wayne

48.

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

Shakespeare, William

49.

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.

50.

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