Motivational Quotes

Anger

Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.

- Antonius, Marcus

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Bible

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

Epictetus

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

Pope, Alexander

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

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

Bible

The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

Act nothing in a furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.

Fuller, Thomas

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

10.

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

Proverb

11.

Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

12.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

13.

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

Fuller, Thomas

14.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

15.

No one can make us angry. People can say and do things to us but it is still up to us as individuals to do what we want with our emotions in response to those things.

16.

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

17.

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

Ruskin, John

18.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

19.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

20.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

21.

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

Mckay, David O.

22.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

23.

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

24.

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

Proverb

25.

Anyone can become angry -- that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way -- this is not easy.

Aristotle

26.

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

27.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

28.

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

29.

The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

Landor, Walter Savage

30.

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

31.

When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out -- because that's what's inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside.

Dyer, Wayne

32.

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

Joubert, Joseph

33.

Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.

Henry, M.

34.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

35.

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

Shenstone, William

36.

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

37.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

38.

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

Boyes, John F.

39.

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

Quarles, Francis

40.

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