Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Edwards, Tryon

Best Quotes about Anger

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

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

To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.

Watts, Alan W.

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

Secker, Thomas

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

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

Emily Dickinson

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

10.

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

Pope, Alexander

11.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

12.

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.

13.

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

Maxim, Samurai

14.

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

15.

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

Ruskin, John

16.

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

17.

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

Fuller, Thomas

18.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

19.

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

20.

The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

21.

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

Thurber, James

22.

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

Laurence J. Peter

23.

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

Akhenaton

24.

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

Aristotle

25.

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

Russell, Bertrand

26.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

27.

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

28.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

29.

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

30.

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

Bacon, Francis

31.

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

Epictetus

32.

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

Bible

33.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

34.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

35.

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

36.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

37.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

38.

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

Buddha

39.

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

40.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Floyd, Pink

45.

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

Shaw, George Bernard

46.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.