Motivational Quotes

Anger

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

- Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

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

2.

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

3.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

4.

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

Proverb

5.

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

6.

The broad general rule is that a man is about as big as the things that make him angry.

7.

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

8.

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

Proverb

9.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

10.

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

Bible

11.

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

Bible

12.

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

Baldwin, James

13.

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

Aurelius, Marcus

14.

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

Akhenaton

15.

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.

16.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

18.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

19.

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

20.

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

Seneca

21.

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

Horace

22.

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

Edwards, Tryon

23.

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

Shakespeare, William

24.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

25.

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

26.

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

Shenstone, William

27.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

28.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

29.

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

30.

Don't play for safety -- it's the most dangerous thing in the world.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

31.

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

Laurence J. Peter

32.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

33.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

34.

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

Lucan, F. L.

35.

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

Webster, John

36.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

37.

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

Angelou, Maya

38.

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

Bible

39.

Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.

Henry Ward Beecher

40.

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

Syrus, Publilius

41.

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

42.

When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other.

Gaulle, Charles De

43.

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

44.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

45.

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

Bacon, Francis