Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Angelou, Maya

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Akhenaton

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

Proverb

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

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

One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.

Syrus, Publilius

The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression. [Proverbs 19:11]

Bible

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

10.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

11.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

12.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.

Freud, Sigmund

14.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

15.

Stay out of the road, if you want to grow old.

Floyd, Pink

16.

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

17.

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

Shakespeare, William

18.

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

Seneca

19.

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

Secker, Thomas

20.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

21.

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

22.

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.

23.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

24.

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.

25.

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

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.

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

Angelou, Maya

28.

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

Joan Lunden

29.

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

Bible

30.

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

Bible

31.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

32.

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

33.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

34.

Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.

Baldwin, James

35.

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.

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.

However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

Ellis, Havelock

38.

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

39.

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

Proverb

40.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

41.

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

Bible

42.

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

Churchill, Winston

43.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

44.

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

Sarnoff, David

45.

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

Plato

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Quarles, Francis

49.

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

Mizner, Wilson

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Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

Clarendon