Motivational Quotes

Anger

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

- Webster, Daniel

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Seneca

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

Bible

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

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.

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

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.

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

Sarnoff, David

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

10.

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

Proverb

11.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

12.

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

Bacon, Francis

13.

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

14.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

15.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

16.

The best answer to anger is silence.

17.

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

Colton, Charles Caleb

18.

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

Edwards, Tryon

19.

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

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.

Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.

Cervantes, Miguel De

22.

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

23.

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

Epictetus

24.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

25.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

26.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

27.

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

28.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Emily Dickinson

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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

31.

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

Churchill, Winston

32.

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

Plato

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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