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

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

Angelou, Maya

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.

Buddha

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

Lucan, F. L.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

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

Mckay, David O.

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

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

Proverb

10.

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

Shakespeare, William

11.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

12.

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

13.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

14.

I have seen a peaceful expression turn to anger as fast as a whip cracks, and so the look on the face might mean less than what it seems to be.

Erica Eisdorfer

15.

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

16.

Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

Halifax, Edward F.

17.

When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out -- because that's what's inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside.

Dyer, Wayne

18.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

19.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

20.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

21.

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

Ruskin, John

22.

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

Freud, Sigmund

23.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

24.

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

Proverb

25.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

26.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

27.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

28.

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.

29.

Nothing is so exhilarating in life as to be shot at with no result.

Churchill, Winston

30.

Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. [Ecclesiastes 7:9]

Bible

31.

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.

32.

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

Bible

33.

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

Emily Dickinson

34.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

35.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

36.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

37.

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

Hugo, Victor

38.

Don't play for safety -- it's the most dangerous thing in the world.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

39.

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

40.

However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

Ellis, Havelock

41.

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.

42.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

43.

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

Bacon, Francis

44.

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

Churchill, Winston

45.

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

Epictetus

46.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

47.

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

48.

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

Proverb, Malabar

49.

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.

50.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel