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

Colton, Charles Caleb

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Proverb

Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.

Hull, Bobby

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Baldwin, James

10.

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

Harris, Sidney J.

11.

No one is as angry as the person who is wrong.

Proverb

12.

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

Greer, Germaine

13.

Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

Seneca

14.

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

Proverb, Malabar

15.

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

16.

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

Horace

17.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

18.

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

Lucan, F. L.

19.

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

Webster, John

20.

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

Churchill, Winston

21.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

22.

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

23.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Boyes, John F.

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Pope, Alexander

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Sarnoff, David

33.

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

Bible

34.

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

35.

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

36.

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

Shaw, George Bernard

37.

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

Hugo, Victor

38.

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

Bible

39.

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

40.

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

Proverb

41.

The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

42.

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

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

44.

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.

45.

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

46.

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

Renard, Jules

47.

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

Laurence J. Peter

48.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

Joubert, Joseph

49.

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