Motivational Quotes

Anger

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Pope, Alexander

Actually, the streets are quite safe today, it's the people on them who aren't.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Bible

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

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

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

Dyer, Wayne

11.

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

Greer, Germaine

12.

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

Akhenaton

13.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

14.

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

15.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

16.

Sticks and stones may break your bones when there's anger to impart. Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart. Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

17.

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

18.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

22.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

23.

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

Edwards, Tryon

24.

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

25.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

26.

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

Proverb

27.

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

28.

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

29.

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

Shenstone, William

30.

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

31.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

32.

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

33.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

Carlyle, Thomas

34.

If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself:'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.'When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.

Epictetus

35.

Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south.

Shakespeare, William

36.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

37.

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.

38.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

39.

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.

40.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

41.

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

Joubert, Joseph

42.

Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

43.

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

Fuller, Thomas

44.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

45.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

46.

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

Churchill, Winston

47.

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

48.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

49.

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

Bible

50.

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

Horace