Motivational Quotes

Anger

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

- Buddha

Best Quotes about Anger

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

Anger is one letter short of danger, Greatest remedy for anger is delay

We are confronted by a first danger, the destructiveness of applied atomic energy. And then we are confronted by a second danger, that we do not enough appreciate the first danger.

Swing, Raymond G.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

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

10.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

11.

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

Dyer, Wayne

12.

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

Boyes, John F.

13.

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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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

15.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

16.

If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wring, but the coals are.

Beecher, Henry Ward

17.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Bible

21.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

22.

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

Shenstone, William

23.

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

Greer, Germaine

24.

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.

25.

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

Fuller, Thomas

26.

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

Dickinson, Emily

27.

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

28.

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

Pope, Alexander

29.

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

30.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

31.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

32.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

33.

The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.

Long, Haniel

34.

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

Epictetus

35.

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.

36.

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

37.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

38.

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

Bacon, Francis

39.

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

40.

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

41.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

42.

I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

Barton, Clara

43.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

44.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

45.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

46.

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

Floyd, Pink

47.

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

48.

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

Proverb

49.

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

Proverb

50.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian