Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

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.

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

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

Shakespeare, William

It is better to do thine own duty, however lacking in merit, than to do that of another, even though efficiently. It is better to die doing one's own duty, for to do the duty of another is fraught with danger.

Bhagavad Gita

The best answer to anger is silence.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

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

Mckay, David O.

Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid at the back of reason, to come to the front when bidden. For once it begins to take control of the mind, it calls just what it does cruelly.

Curtis, George William

10.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

11.

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

Secker, Thomas

12.

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

13.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

14.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

15.

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

Angelou, Maya

16.

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

17.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

18.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

19.

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

Bible

20.

Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.

Buddha

21.

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

Churchill, Winston

22.

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

23.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

24.

Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.

Henry Ward Beecher

25.

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

26.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

27.

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

Epictetus

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.

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

30.

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

Webster, John

31.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

32.

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

Akhenaton

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Lucan, F. L.

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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.

39.

When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other.

Gaulle, Charles De

40.

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

Fuller, Thomas

41.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

42.

Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

43.

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

Bible

44.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

45.

Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.

Babylonian Talmud

46.

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

Horace

47.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

48.

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

49.

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

Emily Dickinson

50.

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