Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

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

2.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

3.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

4.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

5.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

6.

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

Shakespeare, William

7.

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

Mizner, Wilson

8.

Anger is one letter short of danger, Greatest remedy for anger is delay

9.

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.

10.

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.

11.

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

12.

Sticks and stones may break your bones when there's anger to impart. Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart. Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

13.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

14.

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

Shakespeare, William

15.

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

16.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.

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

Renard, Jules

18.

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

Boyes, John F.

19.

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

Greer, Germaine

20.

In time of danger it is proper to be alarmed until danger be near at hand; but when we perceive that danger is near, we should oppose it as if we were not afraid.

Hitopadesa

21.

I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

Barton, Clara

22.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

23.

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.

24.

A soft answer truth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger. [Proverbs 15:1]

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25.

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

Hull, Bobby

26.

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

Thurber, James

27.

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

Freud, Sigmund

28.

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

29.

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

Floyd, Pink

30.

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

Syrus, Publilius

31.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

32.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

33.

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

Plato

34.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

35.

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

Sarnoff, David

36.

Act nothing in a furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.

Fuller, Thomas

37.

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

Dyer, Wayne

38.

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

Bible

39.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

40.

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

Shenstone, William

41.

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

42.

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

43.

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

Gracian, Baltasar

44.

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

Bible

45.

When danger approaches, sing to it.