Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Russell, Bertrand

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

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

Bible

2.

Sticks and stones may break your bones when there's anger to impart. Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart. Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

3.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

4.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

5.

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

Bible

6.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

7.

What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you.

Dyer, Wayne

8.

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

9.

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

Proverb

10.

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

11.

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

Thurber, James

12.

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

Plato

13.

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

Freud, Sigmund

14.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

15.

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

Horace

16.

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.

17.

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

18.

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

Bible

19.

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

Edwards, Tryon

20.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

21.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

22.

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

Secker, Thomas

23.

Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.

Mario Puzo

24.

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

25.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

26.

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

27.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

28.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

29.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

30.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

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

32.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

33.

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

34.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Bacon, Francis

38.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

39.

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

40.

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

41.

However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

Ellis, Havelock

42.

Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.

Hillard, G. S.

43.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

44.

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

Pope, Alexander

45.

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

Floyd, Pink

46.

Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.

Tupper, Martin

47.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

48.

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

Shakespeare, William

49.

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

Bible

50.

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