Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Webster, John

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Quincey, Thomas De

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

Mckay, David O.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

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

Emily Dickinson

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

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

10.

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

Bible

11.

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

12.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

13.

Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. [Ecclesiastes 7:9]

Bible

14.

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

Edwards, Tryon

15.

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.

16.

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

Proverb

17.

The best answer to anger is silence.

18.

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

Joubert, Joseph

19.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

20.

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

Fuller, Thomas

21.

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

Greg Evans

22.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

23.

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.

24.

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

Ruskin, John

25.

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

Floyd, Pink

26.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

27.

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

Lucan, F. L.

28.

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

Shenstone, William

29.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

30.

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

Mario Puzo

31.

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

32.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

33.

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

Bible

34.

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

Maxim, Samurai

35.

He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.

Proverb

36.

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

37.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

38.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

39.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

40.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

41.

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

42.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

43.

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

44.

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

Hugo, Victor

45.

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

46.

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

47.

Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

48.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

49.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

50.

If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself:'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.'When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.

Epictetus