Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Anger

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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence.

Beecher, Henry Ward

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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

Proverb, Malabar

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

Proverb

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

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.

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

10.

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

Emily Dickinson

11.

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

Lucan, F. L.

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Shenstone, William

15.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

16.

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

17.

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

Freud, Sigmund

18.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

19.

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

Greer, Germaine

20.

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

21.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

22.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

23.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Quarles, Francis

24.

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

25.

The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life.

Maxim, Samurai

26.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

27.

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

Aurelius, Marcus

28.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

29.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

30.

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

Bible

31.

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.

32.

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

Mizner, Wilson

33.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

34.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

35.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

36.

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

Sarnoff, David

37.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

38.

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

39.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

40.

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.

41.

The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

Landor, Walter Savage

42.

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

43.

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.

Fuller, Thomas

44.

Anger cannot be dishonest.