Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

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

2.

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

Freud, Sigmund

3.

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.

4.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

5.

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

6.

I used to store my anger and it affected my play. Now I get it out. I'm never rude to my playing partner. I'm very focused on the ball. Then it's over.

Alfredsson, Helen

7.

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

Secker, Thomas

8.

In time of danger it is proper to be alarmed until danger be near at hand; but when we perceive that danger is near, we should oppose it as if we were not afraid.

Hitopadesa

9.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

10.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

11.

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

Colton, Charles Caleb

12.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

16.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

17.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

18.

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

Churchill, Winston

19.

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

Proverb, Malabar

20.

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

Fuller, Thomas

21.

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

Bacon, Francis

22.

The best answer to anger is silence.

23.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

24.

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

Shenstone, William

25.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

26.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

27.

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

28.

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

Baldwin, James

29.

There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.

Dyer, Wayne

30.

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

Gracian, Baltasar

31.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

32.

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

33.

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

Edwards, Tryon

34.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

35.

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

Bible

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

39.

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

Proverb

40.

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

41.

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

42.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

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

Fuller, Thomas

44.

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

45.

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

Bible

46.

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

Hugo, Victor

47.

There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.

Webster, John

48.

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