Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Mario Puzo

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

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

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

Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. [James 1:19-20]

Bible

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

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

10.

Act nothing in a furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.

Fuller, Thomas

11.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

12.

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

Secker, Thomas

13.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

14.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

15.

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

Fuller, Thomas

16.

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

17.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

18.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

19.

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

20.

Do not suppress it-that would hurt you inside. Do not express it-this would not only hurt you inside, it would cause ripples in your surroundings. What you do is transform it.

Pilgrim, Peace

21.

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

Joubert, Joseph

22.

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

Proverb

23.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

24.

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

Shenstone, William

25.

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

Webster, John

26.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

27.

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

28.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

29.

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

Quarles, Francis

30.

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

Bible

31.

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.

32.

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

Greer, Germaine

33.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

34.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

35.

Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

36.

I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.

Maxine Waters

37.

Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south.

Shakespeare, William

38.

When you meet up with a disagreeable person, never allow yourself to be upset. Say to yourself,if a dowdy like that can stand himself all his life, surely I can stand him for a few minutes.

39.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

40.

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

Mckay, David O.

41.

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.

42.

Sticks and stones may break your bones when there's anger to impart. Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart. Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

43.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

44.

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

Maxim, Samurai

45.

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

46.

The best answer to anger is silence.

47.

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

48.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

49.

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

Sarnoff, David

50.

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