Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

2.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

3.

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

4.

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

Horace

5.

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

6.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

7.

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

8.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

9.

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

Floyd, Pink

10.

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

Freud, Sigmund

11.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

12.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

13.

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

Bible

14.

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

Bible

15.

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

Secker, Thomas

16.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

17.

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

Bacon, Francis

18.

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

19.

The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.

George, David Lloyd

20.

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

Maxim, Samurai

21.

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

Wallenda, Karl

22.

The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

23.

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

Baldwin, James

24.

The best answer to anger is silence.

25.

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

Shenstone, William

26.

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

Pope, Alexander

27.

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

28.

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

Akhenaton

29.

Doomed are the hotheads! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, I'm sorry.

Schuller, Robert H.

30.

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

Proverb, Malabar

31.

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

32.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

33.

Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.

Hull, Bobby

34.

Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.

Tupper, Martin

35.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

36.

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

37.

Actually, the streets are quite safe today, it's the people on them who aren't.

38.

What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you.

Dyer, Wayne

39.

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

40.

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

Harris, Sidney J.

41.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

42.

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

Aurelius, Marcus

43.

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

Lucan, F. L.

44.

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.

45.

Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south.

Shakespeare, William

46.

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

47.

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

Edwards, Tryon

48.

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

49.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

50.

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