Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Anger

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

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.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

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.

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

Proverb, Malabar

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Russell, Bertrand

10.

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

11.

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

Proverb

12.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

13.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

14.

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

Webster, John

15.

What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you.

Dyer, Wayne

16.

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

17.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

18.

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

Bible

19.

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

Fuller, Thomas

20.

The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

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

Mizner, Wilson

22.

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

Seneca

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A wave of anger washed over me, anger against myself, at my age at the time, that stupid lyrically age, when a man is too great a riddle to himself to be interested in the riddles outside himself and when other people are mere walking mirrors in which he is amazed to find his own emotions, his own worth.

Kundera, Milan

24.

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

25.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

26.

The best answer to anger is silence.

27.

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

28.

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

Shakespeare, William

29.

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

Edwards, Tryon

30.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

31.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

33.

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

34.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

35.

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

Bible

36.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

37.

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

38.

The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances boldly to meet them head on. The weak man grows agitated. But the superior man stands up to fate, endures resolutely in his inner certainty If ignorant both

I Ching

39.

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

40.

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

Plato

41.

Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.

Halifax, Edward F.

42.

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

Bible

43.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

44.

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

45.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

46.

Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.

Tupper, Martin

47.

I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

Colby, Frank Moore

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If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?