Motivational Quotes

Anger

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.

Best Quotes about Anger

The best answer to anger is silence.

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

Horace

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

As the whirlwind in its fury teareth up trees, and deformeth the face of nature, or as an earthquake in its convulsions overturneth whole cities; so the rage of an angry man throweth mischief around him.

Akhenaton

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Joubert, Joseph

Whenever you get red in the face, whenever you raise your voice, whenever you get hot under the collar or angry, rebellious or negative in spirit, then know that the spirit of God is leaving you and the spirit of Satan is beginning to take over.

10.

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

Proverb

11.

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

12.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

13.

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

Boyes, John F.

14.

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

Edwards, Tryon

15.

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

Churchill, Winston

16.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

17.

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

Mario Puzo

18.

Actually, the streets are quite safe today, it's the people on them who aren't.

19.

Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.

Beecher, Henry Ward

20.

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

Fuller, Thomas

21.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

22.

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

Proverb, Malabar

23.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

24.

Do not suppress it-that would hurt you inside. Do not express it-this would not only hurt you inside, it would cause ripples in your surroundings. What you do is transform it.

Pilgrim, Peace

25.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

26.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

27.

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

28.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

29.

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

30.

Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.

Hull, Bobby

31.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

32.

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

Sarnoff, David

33.

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

Mizner, Wilson

34.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

35.

The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.

George, David Lloyd

36.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

37.

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

38.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

39.

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

Bible

40.

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

41.

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

Russell, Bertrand

42.

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

Buddha

43.

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

Shakespeare, William

44.

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

45.

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

Bacon, Francis

46.

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

Proverb

47.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

48.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

49.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

50.

A wave of anger washed over me, anger against myself, at my age at the time, that stupid lyrically age, when a man is too great a riddle to himself to be interested in the riddles outside himself and when other people are mere walking mirrors in which he is amazed to find his own emotions, his own worth.

Kundera, Milan