Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Pope, Alexander

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

2.

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

3.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

4.

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

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5.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

6.

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

7.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

8.

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

Russell, Bertrand

9.

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

Churchill, Winston

10.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

11.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

12.

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

Aurelius, Marcus

13.

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

15.

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

Syrus, Publilius

16.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

Joubert, Joseph

17.

The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong.

Mizner, Wilson

18.

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

Shakespeare, William

19.

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

20.

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.

21.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

22.

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

Horace

23.

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

Maxim, Samurai

24.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

25.

There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.

Francis De Sales, St.

26.

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

Shenstone, William

27.

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

Epictetus

28.

Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.

Henry, M.

29.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

30.

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

Proverb

31.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

32.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

33.

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

Fuller, Thomas

34.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

35.

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

36.

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

Plato

37.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

38.

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

39.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

40.

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

Buddha

41.

Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.

Hull, Bobby

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Laurence J. Peter

45.

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

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46.

The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them. [Proverbs 12:6]

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47.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.