Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

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

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

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

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.

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.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

10.

Anger as soon as fed is dead- 'Tis starving makes it fat.

Emily Dickinson

11.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

12.

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.

Cherie Carter-Scott

13.

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

14.

No one is as angry as the person who is wrong.

Proverb

15.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

16.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

I lose my temper, but it's all over in a minute, said the student. So is the hydrogen bomb, I replied. But think of the damage it produces!

Sweeting, George

21.

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

22.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

23.

It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.

Riley, James Whitcomb

24.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

25.

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

26.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

27.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

29.

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

30.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

31.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

32.

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

33.

The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

35.

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

Epictetus

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

40.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

41.

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

Buddha

42.

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

43.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

44.

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

Hugo, Victor

45.

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

46.

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

Bible

47.

Anger is one letter short of danger, Greatest remedy for anger is delay

48.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

49.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo