Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Maxim, Samurai

Best Quotes about Anger

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.

Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Buddha

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

Proverb

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

When you meet up with a disagreeable person, never allow yourself to be upset. Say to yourself,if a dowdy like that can stand himself all his life, surely I can stand him for a few minutes.

10.

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

Seneca

11.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

12.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

13.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

14.

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

Proverb, Malabar

15.

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

16.

The broad general rule is that a man is about as big as the things that make him angry.

17.

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

Bible

18.

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

Proverb

19.

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

Fuller, Thomas

20.

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

Dyer, Wayne

21.

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

22.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

23.

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

Bible

24.

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

25.

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

Floyd, Pink

26.

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

27.

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

Syrus, Publilius

28.

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

29.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

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

Quarles, Francis

31.

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

Webster, John

32.

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.

33.

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

34.

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

Baldwin, James

35.

Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

36.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

37.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

38.

Danger -- if you meet it promptly and without flinching -- you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Churchill, Winston

39.

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.

40.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

41.

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

42.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

43.

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

44.

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

Pope, Alexander

45.

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

46.

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

Lucan, F. L.

47.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Malcolm X

48.

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

Shakespeare, William

49.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

50.

I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they

White, Elwyn Brooks