Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Thurber, James

Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.

Mario Puzo

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Bible

Anger is one letter short of danger, Greatest remedy for anger is delay

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

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

Bacon, Francis

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

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

10.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

11.

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

12.

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

Dickinson, Emily

13.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Bible

17.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

18.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

20.

Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.

Greg Evans

21.

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

Dyer, Wayne

22.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

23.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

24.

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

25.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

26.

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

Emily Dickinson

27.

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.

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.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

30.

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

31.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Plato

35.

Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.

Mckay, David O.

36.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

37.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

38.

A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied with small gains, which will come by creative adaptations.

I Ching

39.

Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

Halifax, Edward F.

40.

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

41.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

42.

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

Lucan, F. L.

43.

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

Buddha

44.

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