Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Angelis, Barbara De

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

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

Sarnoff, David

2.

I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they

White, Elwyn Brooks

3.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

4.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

5.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

6.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

7.

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

Bible

8.

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

Plato

9.

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

Fuller, Thomas

10.

I have seen a peaceful expression turn to anger as fast as a whip cracks, and so the look on the face might mean less than what it seems to be.

Erica Eisdorfer

11.

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.

12.

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

Greg Evans

13.

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

Maxim, Samurai

14.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

15.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

16.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

17.

If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.

Epictetus

18.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

19.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

20.

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

21.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

22.

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

23.

Don't play for safety -- it's the most dangerous thing in the world.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

24.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

25.

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

Mizner, Wilson

26.

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

Epictetus

27.

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

Edwards, Tryon

28.

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

Quarles, Francis

29.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

31.

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

Laurence J. Peter

32.

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

Shakespeare, William

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Emily Dickinson

36.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

37.

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

38.

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

Proverb, Malabar

39.

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.

40.

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

41.

The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.

Lucan, F. L.

42.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

43.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

44.

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

Fuller, Thomas

45.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

46.

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

47.

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

Angelou, Maya

48.

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

Bible

49.

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

Hugo, Victor

50.

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.