Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Dickinson, Emily

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

2.

The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.

Ruskin, John

3.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

4.

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

Shakespeare, William

5.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

6.

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

Proverb

7.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

8.

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

9.

It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and angry woman. [Proverbs 21:19]

Bible

10.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

11.

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

12.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

13.

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

14.

Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

15.

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

16.

No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.

Brown, John Mason

17.

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

18.

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

Horace

19.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

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

21.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

22.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

23.

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

Bible

24.

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

Plato

25.

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

Bible

26.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

27.

He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.

Proverb

28.

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

29.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

30.

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

Proverb, Malabar

31.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

32.

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

Bible

33.

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

Bible

34.

Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

35.

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

Thurber, James

36.

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

Seneca

37.

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

38.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

39.

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

40.

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

Quarles, Francis

41.

Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.

Shakespeare, William

42.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

43.

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

Renard, Jules

44.

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

45.

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

Syrus, Publilius

46.

Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.

Antonius, Marcus

47.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

48.

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