Motivational Quotes

Anger

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

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

2.

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

3.

Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.

Baldwin, James

4.

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

Shenstone, William

5.

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.

6.

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

Webster, John

7.

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

Proverb

8.

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

9.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

10.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

11.

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

12.

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

Bacon, Francis

13.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

14.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

15.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

16.

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

Russell, Bertrand

17.

I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.

Maxine Waters

18.

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.

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

23.

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.

24.

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

Lucan, F. L.

25.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

26.

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

Shakespeare, William

27.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

28.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

29.

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

Secker, Thomas

30.

Whenever you get red in the face, whenever you raise your voice, whenever you get hot under the collar or angry, rebellious or negative in spirit, then know that the spirit of God is leaving you and the spirit of Satan is beginning to take over.

31.

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

32.

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

Epictetus

33.

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

34.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

35.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

36.

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

Bible

37.

Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

38.

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

39.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

40.

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

Proverb

41.

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

42.

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