Motivational Quotes

Anger

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Anger

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

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

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

Thurber, James

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Edwards, Tryon

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

Bible

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

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.

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

10.

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.

11.

When you meet up with a disagreeable person, never allow yourself to be upset. Say to yourself,if a dowdy like that can stand himself all his life, surely I can stand him for a few minutes.

12.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

13.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

14.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

15.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

16.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

17.

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

Fuller, Thomas

18.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

19.

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

Bible

20.

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

Akhenaton

21.

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

Mario Puzo

22.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

23.

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

Shakespeare, William

24.

Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

25.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

26.

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.

27.

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.

28.

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

Churchill, Winston

29.

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

Floyd, Pink

30.

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

31.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

32.

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

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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

34.

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

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.

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

Lucan, F. L.

37.

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

38.

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.

Colton, Charles Caleb

39.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

40.

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

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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

42.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

43.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

44.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

45.

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

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Angelou, Maya

48.

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

Greer, Germaine

49.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

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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