Motivational Quotes

Anger

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.

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

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

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Thurber, James

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

10.

Sticks and stones may break your bones when there's anger to impart. Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart. Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

11.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

12.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

13.

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

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

Maxim, Samurai

15.

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

Greer, Germaine

16.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

17.

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

18.

Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

19.

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

Fuller, Thomas

20.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

21.

Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.

Greg Evans

22.

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

Seneca

23.

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

24.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

25.

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

Sarnoff, David

26.

I lose my temper, but it's all over in a minute, said the student. So is the hydrogen bomb, I replied. But think of the damage it produces!

Sweeting, George

27.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

28.

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

Bible

29.

A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied with small gains, which will come by creative adaptations.

I Ching

30.

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

Proverb

31.

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

Akhenaton

32.

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

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Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

34.

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.

35.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

36.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

37.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

38.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

39.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

40.

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

41.

Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.

Halifax, Edward F.

42.

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

Aristotle

43.

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

Mizner, Wilson

44.

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

Wallenda, Karl

45.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

46.

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

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

Churchill, Winston

48.

I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

Colby, Frank Moore

49.

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

Bible

50.

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