Motivational Quotes

Anger

No person is important enough to make me angry.

- Castaneda, Carlos

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

Secker, Thomas

2.

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

Mckay, David O.

3.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

4.

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.

Fuller, Thomas

5.

Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.

Antonius, Marcus

6.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

7.

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.

8.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

9.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

10.

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

Freud, Sigmund

11.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

12.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

13.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

14.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

15.

Danger -- if you meet it promptly and without flinching -- you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Churchill, Winston

16.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

17.

Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.

Hull, Bobby

18.

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

19.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

20.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

21.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

22.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

23.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

24.

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

Hugo, Victor

25.

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

Proverb

26.

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

Seneca

27.

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

Greer, Germaine

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

31.

Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.

Henry, M.

32.

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

33.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

34.

Whenever you get red in the face, whenever you raise your voice, whenever you get hot under the collar or angry, rebellious or negative in spirit, then know that the spirit of God is leaving you and the spirit of Satan is beginning to take over.

35.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

36.

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

Wallenda, Karl

37.

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

38.

Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much; such men are dangerous. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

39.

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

40.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

41.

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.

42.

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

Joubert, Joseph

43.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

44.

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

45.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Quarles, Francis

46.

The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression. [Proverbs 19:11]

Bible

47.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

48.

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

Bible

49.

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

Fuller, Thomas

50.

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