Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Francis De Sales, St.

Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

Seneca

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

Hugo, Victor

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

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

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

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

10.

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.

11.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

13.

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

14.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

15.

Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

Akhenaton

16.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.

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

Bible

18.

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

Bible

19.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

20.

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

Mckay, David O.

21.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

22.

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

23.

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

Seneca

24.

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

Bacon, Francis

25.

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

Fuller, Thomas

26.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

27.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

28.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

29.

Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.

Shakespeare, William

30.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

31.

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

Laurence J. Peter

32.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

33.

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

George, David Lloyd

34.

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

Dyer, Wayne

35.

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

Edwards, Tryon

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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

37.

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

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

Schuller, Robert H.

39.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

40.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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.

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

Mario Puzo

43.

It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and angry woman. [Proverbs 21:19]

Bible

44.

Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid at the back of reason, to come to the front when bidden. For once it begins to take control of the mind, it calls just what it does cruelly.

Curtis, George William

45.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Quarles, Francis

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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

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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.