Motivational Quotes

Anger

The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.

- Ruskin, John

Best Quotes about Anger

One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Bible

The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.

Long, Haniel

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

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

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

10.

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

Bible

11.

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

12.

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

Bible

13.

Let not the sun go down upon your wrath. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

14.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

15.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

16.

Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much; such men are dangerous. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

17.

To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.

Edwards, Tryon

18.

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

19.

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

20.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

21.

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

Emily Dickinson

22.

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

23.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

24.

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

Secker, Thomas

25.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

26.

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

Shenstone, William

27.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

28.

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

29.

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

Shakespeare, William

30.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

31.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

32.

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

Boyes, John F.

33.

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

Bacon, Francis

34.

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

Proverb

35.

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

36.

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

Quarles, Francis

37.

The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

38.

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

39.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

40.

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.

41.

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

Laurence J. Peter

42.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

43.

Stay out of the road, if you want to grow old.

Floyd, Pink

44.

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

Dickinson, Emily

45.

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

Russell, Bertrand

46.

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

47.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

48.

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

Angelou, Maya

49.

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

Shakespeare, William

50.

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!