Motivational Quotes

Anger

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Anger

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

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.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Proverb

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

10.

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

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.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Baldwin, James

15.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

16.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

17.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

18.

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

Proverb

19.

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

Lucan, F. L.

20.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

21.

If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wring, but the coals are.

Beecher, Henry Ward

22.

No one can make us angry. People can say and do things to us but it is still up to us as individuals to do what we want with our emotions in response to those things.

23.

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

Russell, Bertrand

24.

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

Dyer, Wayne

25.

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

26.

The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life.

Maxim, Samurai

27.

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

Proverb, Malabar

28.

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

29.

If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.

Epictetus

30.

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.

31.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

32.

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

Boyes, John F.

33.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

34.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

35.

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

36.

Act nothing in a furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.

Fuller, Thomas

37.

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.

38.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

39.

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

40.

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

Bible

41.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

42.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

43.

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

Joubert, Joseph

44.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

45.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

46.

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

47.

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

Shenstone, William

48.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

49.

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

Syrus, Publilius

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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