Motivational Quotes

Anger

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

- Angelis, Barbara De

Best Quotes about Anger

When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

Angelis, Barbara De

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.

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

Shaw, George Bernard

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

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

10.

By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned; By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned.

Pope, Alexander

11.

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

12.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

13.

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

Joubert, Joseph

14.

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

Seneca

15.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

16.

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

17.

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

Russell, Bertrand

18.

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

Floyd, Pink

19.

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

20.

The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

Landor, Walter Savage

21.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

22.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

23.

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

24.

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

Bible

25.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

26.

Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.

Babylonian Talmud

27.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

28.

Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.

Henry Ward Beecher

29.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

30.

The broad general rule is that a man is about as big as the things that make him angry.

31.

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

32.

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

Shakespeare, William

33.

I have seen a peaceful expression turn to anger as fast as a whip cracks, and so the look on the face might mean less than what it seems to be.

Erica Eisdorfer

34.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

35.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

36.

Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.

Laurence J. Peter

37.

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

Fuller, Thomas

38.

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

Bible

39.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

40.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

41.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

42.

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.

43.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

44.

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

45.

The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.

George, David Lloyd

46.

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

Epictetus

47.

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

Maxim, Samurai

48.

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

49.

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

50.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius