Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Angelou, Maya

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them. [Proverbs 12:6]

Bible

2.

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

Mizner, Wilson

3.

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

Floyd, Pink

4.

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

5.

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

Boyes, John F.

6.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

7.

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

Secker, Thomas

8.

To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.

Edwards, Tryon

9.

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

Plato

10.

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

11.

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

Wallenda, Karl

12.

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

Fuller, Thomas

13.

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

Bacon, Francis

14.

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

Gracian, Baltasar

15.

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

Baldwin, James

16.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

17.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

18.

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

19.

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

Mario Puzo

20.

However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

Ellis, Havelock

21.

Don't play for safety -- it's the most dangerous thing in the world.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

22.

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.

23.

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

24.

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

Seneca

25.

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

26.

He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.

Magnus, Saint Albertus

27.

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

Buddha

28.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

29.

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

Greer, Germaine

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

33.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

34.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

35.

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

36.

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

Fuller, Thomas

37.

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

38.

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

Bible

39.

Doomed are the hotheads! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, I'm sorry.

Schuller, Robert H.

40.

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

41.

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

Dyer, Wayne

42.

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

Bible

43.

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

44.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

45.

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

Proverb, Malabar

46.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

47.

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

48.

When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other.

Gaulle, Charles De

49.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

50.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo