Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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 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

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

Churchill, Winston

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

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.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.

Buddha

10.

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

Shaw, George Bernard

11.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

12.

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

Russell, Bertrand

13.

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

Proverb

14.

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.

15.

A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied with small gains, which will come by creative adaptations.

I Ching

16.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

17.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

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.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

20.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

23.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

24.

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

Boyes, John F.

25.

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

Dyer, Wayne

26.

He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

Plato

27.

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

28.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

29.

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

30.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

31.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

32.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

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.

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

Hull, Bobby

35.

Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.

Greg Evans

36.

Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.

Antonius, Marcus

37.

There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.

Webster, John

38.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

39.

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

Thurber, James

40.

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

Floyd, Pink

41.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

42.

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

Laurence J. Peter

43.

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

44.

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

Buddha

45.

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

Proverb

46.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

47.

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

48.

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

Hugo, Victor

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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

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The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.

Ruskin, John