Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Plato

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

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

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]

Bible

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

Mckay, David O.

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

Proverb, Malabar

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

Seneca

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.

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

11.

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

Sarnoff, David

12.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

13.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

14.

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

Syrus, Publilius

15.

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

Bible

16.

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

Shenstone, William

17.

No one can make us angry. People can say and do things to us but it is still up to us as individuals to do what we want with our emotions in response to those things.

18.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

19.

The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances boldly to meet them head on. The weak man grows agitated. But the superior man stands up to fate, endures resolutely in his inner certainty If ignorant both

I Ching

20.

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

Lucan, F. L.

21.

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

22.

Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.

Greer, Germaine

23.

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

Bible

24.

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

25.

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

Laurence J. Peter

26.

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

27.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

28.

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

29.

The best answer to anger is silence.

30.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Proverb

31.

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

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

Shakespeare, William

33.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

34.

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

35.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

36.

Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.

Henry Ward Beecher

37.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

38.

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.

39.

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

Freud, Sigmund

40.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

41.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

42.

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.

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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.

46.

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

Mizner, Wilson

47.

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

Bible

48.

Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south.

Shakespeare, William

49.

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

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The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb