Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

Akhenaton

2.

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

3.

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

4.

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

Shakespeare, William

5.

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

Bacon, Francis

6.

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

Bible

7.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

8.

Actually, the streets are quite safe today, it's the people on them who aren't.

9.

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

Lucan, F. L.

10.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

12.

We are confronted by a first danger, the destructiveness of applied atomic energy. And then we are confronted by a second danger, that we do not enough appreciate the first danger.

Swing, Raymond G.

13.

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

Joubert, Joseph

14.

Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.

Baldwin, James

15.

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

16.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

17.

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

18.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Angelou, Maya

19.

Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.

Wallenda, Karl

20.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

21.

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

22.

Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.

Greer, Germaine

23.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

24.

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

Boyes, John F.

25.

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

26.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

27.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

28.

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

29.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Malcolm X

30.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

31.

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

Mizner, Wilson

32.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

33.

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

Russell, Bertrand

34.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

35.

There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.

Dyer, Wayne

36.

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

Mckay, David O.

37.

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

Bible

38.

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

39.

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

Proverb

40.

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

41.

The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.

Freud, Sigmund

42.

I used to store my anger and it affected my play. Now I get it out. I'm never rude to my playing partner. I'm very focused on the ball. Then it's over.

Alfredsson, Helen

43.

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

44.

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

Emily Dickinson

45.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

46.

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

Proverb, Malabar

47.

Between the anvil and the hammer.