Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Syrus, Publilius

Best Quotes about Anger

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.

Buddha

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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.

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

Harris, Sidney J.

There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.

Dyer, Wayne

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.

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

Proverb

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

10.

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

Mario Puzo

11.

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

12.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

13.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

14.

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

Plato

15.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

16.

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

17.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

Carlyle, Thomas

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It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.

Riley, James Whitcomb

19.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

20.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

21.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

22.

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

Horace

23.

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

Webster, John

24.

The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong.

Mizner, Wilson

25.

He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.

Proverb

26.

Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.

Buddha

27.

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

Seneca

28.

Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.

Fuller, Thomas

29.

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

Bible

30.

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

Baldwin, James

31.

The best answer to anger is silence.

32.

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

34.

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

35.

Doomed are the hotheads! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, I'm sorry.

Schuller, Robert H.

36.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

37.

Danger -- if you meet it promptly and without flinching -- you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Churchill, Winston

38.

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

Dickinson, Emily

39.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

40.

I used to store my anger and it affected my play. Now I get it out. I'm never rude to my playing partner. I'm very focused on the ball. Then it's over.

Alfredsson, Helen

41.

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

42.

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

Greer, Germaine

43.

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

44.

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

Angelou, Maya

45.

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

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

Emily Dickinson

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