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

1.

Scornful men bring a city into a snare, but wise men turn away wrath. [Proverbs 29:8]

Bible

2.

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

Akhenaton

3.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

4.

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

Proverb

5.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

6.

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

Bacon, Francis

7.

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

Proverb

8.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

9.

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

Churchill, Winston

10.

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

Maxim, Samurai

11.

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

Pope, Alexander

12.

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

Proverb, Malabar

13.

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

14.

To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.

Watts, Alan W.

15.

The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.

Ruskin, John

16.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Quarles, Francis

17.

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

18.

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

19.

All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.

Paley, Babe

20.

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

Laurence J. Peter

21.

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

Sarnoff, David

22.

Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south.

Shakespeare, William

23.

Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. [Ecclesiastes 7:9]

Bible

24.

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

Webster, John

25.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

26.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

27.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

28.

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

Epictetus

29.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

30.

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

Bible

31.

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

Angelou, Maya

32.

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

Joubert, Joseph

33.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.

Mckay, David O.

35.

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

36.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

37.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

38.

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

Thurber, James

39.

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

Freud, Sigmund

40.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Malcolm X

41.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

42.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

43.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

44.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

45.

There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.

Francis De Sales, St.

46.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

47.

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

Proverb

48.

The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances boldly to meet them head on. The weak man grows agitated. But the superior man stands up to fate, endures resolutely in his inner certainty If ignorant both

I Ching

49.

Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.

Wallenda, Karl

50.

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