Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Greer, Germaine

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.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Proverb

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

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

Proverb

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

Bible

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

Pope, Alexander

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

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

10.

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

Shakespeare, William

11.

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

Horace

12.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

13.

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

Proverb, Malabar

14.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

15.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

16.

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

Dyer, Wayne

17.

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

18.

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.

19.

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

Renard, Jules

20.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

22.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

23.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

24.

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

Baldwin, James

25.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

26.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

27.

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

28.

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

Churchill, Winston

29.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

30.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

31.

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

Floyd, Pink

32.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

33.

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

Dyer, Wayne

34.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

35.

As the whirlwind in its fury teareth up trees, and deformeth the face of nature, or as an earthquake in its convulsions overturneth whole cities; so the rage of an angry man throweth mischief around him.

Akhenaton

36.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

37.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

38.

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

39.

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

Joubert, Joseph

40.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

41.

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

Mario Puzo

42.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

43.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

44.

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

45.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

46.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

50.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese