Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Lucan, F. L.

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

2.

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

Freud, Sigmund

3.

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

Horace

4.

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

Angelou, Maya

5.

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

6.

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.

7.

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

Thurber, James

8.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

9.

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

Proverb

10.

He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.

Proverb

11.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

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

13.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

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

Bible

15.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

16.

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.

17.

The best answer to anger is silence.

18.

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

Dyer, Wayne

19.

Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.

Tupper, Martin

20.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

21.

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

22.

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

Bible

23.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

24.

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

25.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

26.

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

Mckay, David O.

27.

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

28.

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

Fuller, Thomas

29.

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

Greg Evans

30.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

31.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

32.

As the whirlwind in its fury teareth up trees, and deformeth the face of nature, or as an earthquake in its convulsions overturneth whole cities; so the rage of an angry man throweth mischief around him.

Akhenaton

33.

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

34.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

35.

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

Maxim, Samurai

36.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

37.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

38.

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

Dyer, Wayne

39.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Malcolm X

40.

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

Shakespeare, William

41.

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

42.

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.

43.

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

Emily Dickinson

44.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

45.

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

Bible

46.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

47.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

48.

Actually, the streets are quite safe today, it's the people on them who aren't.

49.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

50.

We are confronted by a first danger, the destructiveness of applied atomic energy. And then we are confronted by a second danger, that we do not enough appreciate the first danger.

Swing, Raymond G.