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

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

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

Plato

It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and angry woman. [Proverbs 21:19]

Bible

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

I lose my temper, but it's all over in a minute, said the student. So is the hydrogen bomb, I replied. But think of the damage it produces!

Sweeting, George

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

Proverb, Malabar

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

Sarnoff, David

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

10.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

11.

No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.

Brown, John Mason

12.

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

13.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

14.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

15.

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

16.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

17.

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

Shenstone, William

18.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

19.

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

Emily Dickinson

20.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

21.

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

22.

As the whirlwind in its fury teareth up trees, and deformeth the face of nature, or as an earthquake in its convulsions overturneth whole cities; so the rage of an angry man throweth mischief around him.

Akhenaton

23.

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

Baldwin, James

24.

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

Pope, Alexander

25.

A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied with small gains, which will come by creative adaptations.

I Ching

26.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

27.

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

28.

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.

29.

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

Joan Lunden

30.

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

31.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

32.

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

Bible

33.

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

34.

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.

Colton, Charles Caleb

35.

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

Bible

36.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

37.

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.

38.

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

Buddha

39.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

40.

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

41.

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

Renard, Jules

42.

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

43.

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

Hugo, Victor

44.

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

45.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

46.

I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they

White, Elwyn Brooks

47.

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

Secker, Thomas

48.

When you meet up with a disagreeable person, never allow yourself to be upset. Say to yourself,if a dowdy like that can stand himself all his life, surely I can stand him for a few minutes.

49.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

50.

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