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

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

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

Boyes, John F.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Horace

I used to store my anger and it affected my play. Now I get it out. I'm never rude to my playing partner. I'm very focused on the ball. Then it's over.

Alfredsson, Helen

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 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.

10.

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

Dickinson, Emily

11.

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

Renard, Jules

12.

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.

13.

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

14.

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

Secker, Thomas

15.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

16.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

17.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

18.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

19.

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

Sarnoff, David

20.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

21.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

22.

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

Buddha

23.

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

Proverb

24.

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

Shakespeare, William

25.

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

Proverb, Malabar

26.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

27.

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

28.

By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned; By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned.

Pope, Alexander

29.

There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.

Webster, John

30.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

31.

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

Greg Evans

32.

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

Dyer, Wayne

33.

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.

34.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

35.

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

36.

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.

37.

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

38.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

39.

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.

40.

Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

Akhenaton

41.

Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.

Cervantes, Miguel De

42.

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

Bible

43.

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

Epictetus

44.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

45.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

46.

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

Angelou, Maya

47.

All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.

Paley, Babe

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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

49.

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

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

Emily Dickinson