“Anger is certainly a kind of baseness.”
Francis Bacon
AngerCharacter
Anger Quotes
200 FAMOUS QUOTES · ANGER
Anger Quotes
Read 200 of the best anger quotes on controlling your temper, staying calm and letting go, from Seneca, Buddha, Marcus Aurelius, Shakespeare and more.
“Men must beware, that they carry their anger rather with scorn, than with fear.”
Francis Bacon
DignitySelf-Control
“Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.”
Francis Bacon
ConsequencesWit
“Anger will cease and become more controllable if it finds that it must appear before a judge every day.”
Seneca
Self-ReflectionDiscipline
“He conquers twice, who conquers himself in victory.”
Publilius Syrus
Self-ControlVictory
“An angry lover tells himself many lies.”
Publilius Syrus
LoveSelf-Deception
“In punishing, anger must be especially avoided.”
Cicero
JusticeCalm
“The man who is angry at the right things and with the right people, and, further, as he ought, when he ought, and as long as he ought, is praised.”
Aristotle
BalanceWisdom
“Anger may be defined as an impulse, accompanied by pain, to a conspicuous revenge for a conspicuous slight.”
Aristotle
DefinitionRevenge
“Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.”
Thomas à Kempis
AcceptanceHumility
“A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife.”
The Bible (Proverbs 15:18)
PeaceConflict
“But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice.”
The Bible (Colossians 3:8)
Letting GoFaith
“The forcing of wrath bringeth forth strife.”
The Bible (Proverbs 30:33)
ConflictConsequences
“Whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment.”
The Bible (Matthew 5:22)
JudgmentBrotherhood
“A fool's wrath is presently known: but a prudent man covereth shame.”
The Bible (Proverbs 12:16)
WisdomFools
“Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice.”
The Bible (Ephesians 4:31)
Letting GoPeace
“Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous.”
The Bible (Proverbs 27:4)
CrueltyAnger
“Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen?”
The Bible (Genesis 4:6)
Self-ReflectionAnger
“Envy and wrath shorten the life.”
The Bible (Sirach 30:24)
HealthEnvy
“A man of great wrath shall suffer punishment.”
The Bible (Proverbs 19:19)
ConsequencesAnger
“Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!”
The Bible (James 3:5)
WordsConsequences
“He that hath knowledge spareth his words: and a man of understanding is of an excellent spirit.”
The Bible (Proverbs 17:27)
SilenceWisdom
“Do not speak harshly to anybody; those who are spoken to will answer thee in the same way.”
Buddha (Dhammapada)
Kind WordsKarma
“The Awakened call patience the highest penance, long-suffering the highest Nirvana.”
Buddha (Dhammapada)
PatienceSpirituality
“Harmlessness, truth, absence of wrath, renunciation, peacefulness, absence of crookedness.”
Bhagavad Gita
VirtuePeace