Motivational Quotes

Anger

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

- Harriet Lerner

Best Quotes about Anger

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.

Epictetus

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

Bible

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

Carlyle, Thomas

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.

Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.

Tupper, Martin

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they

White, Elwyn Brooks

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

Bible

10.

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

Freud, Sigmund

11.

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.

12.

Nothing is so exhilarating in life as to be shot at with no result.

Churchill, Winston

13.

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

Greer, Germaine

14.

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

Dyer, Wayne

15.

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

16.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

20.

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

Lucan, F. L.

21.

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

Dyer, Wayne

22.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

23.

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

Mario Puzo

24.

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

25.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

26.

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

Renard, Jules

27.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

30.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

31.

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

Floyd, Pink

32.

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

Plato

33.

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

34.

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.

35.

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

36.

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

37.

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

38.

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

39.

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

Sarnoff, David

40.

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

Churchill, Winston

41.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

42.

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

Bacon, Francis

43.

Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.

Halifax, Edward F.

44.

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

Joan Lunden

45.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

46.

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

Baldwin, James

47.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

48.

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