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

1.

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

Fuller, Thomas

2.

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

Bible

3.

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

4.

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

Floyd, Pink

5.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

6.

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

Horace

7.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

8.

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

9.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

10.

Anyone can become angry -- that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way -- this is not easy.

Aristotle

11.

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

Seneca

12.

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

Secker, Thomas

13.

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

Proverb, Malabar

14.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

15.

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

Aurelius, Marcus

16.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

17.

Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, everyone should be serene, slow-pulsed and calm.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

18.

Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

19.

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.

20.

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

Buddha

21.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

22.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

23.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

24.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

25.

If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.

Epictetus

26.

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

27.

Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.

Hull, Bobby

28.

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

Bible

29.

The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.

Freud, Sigmund

30.

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

31.

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

32.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

33.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

34.

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

Mario Puzo

35.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Mckay, David O.

39.

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

40.

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

41.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Malcolm X

42.

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

Proverb

43.

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

Churchill, Winston

44.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

45.

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

46.

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.

47.

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

Dyer, Wayne

48.

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

Bible

49.

No one can make us angry. People can say and do things to us but it is still up to us as individuals to do what we want with our emotions in response to those things.

50.

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

Proverb