Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Bierce, Ambrose

Best Quotes about Anger

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

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

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 words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them. [Proverbs 12:6]

Bible

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

Akhenaton

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

Ruskin, John

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.

Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.

Hillard, G. S.

10.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

11.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

12.

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

Bible

13.

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

14.

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

Mckay, David O.

15.

Doomed are the hotheads! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, I'm sorry.

Schuller, Robert H.

16.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

17.

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

18.

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

Dyer, Wayne

19.

The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

20.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

21.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

22.

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

Proverb

23.

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

24.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

25.

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

26.

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

Shakespeare, William

27.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

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

29.

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.

30.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

31.

Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.

Fuller, Thomas

32.

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

Fuller, Thomas

33.

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.

34.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

35.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

36.

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

37.

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

38.

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

Greer, Germaine

39.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

40.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

41.

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

Churchill, Winston

42.

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

43.

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

Proverb

44.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

45.

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

Dyer, Wayne

46.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

47.

The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong.

Mizner, Wilson

48.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

49.

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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In time of danger it is proper to be alarmed until danger be near at hand; but when we perceive that danger is near, we should oppose it as if we were not afraid.

Hitopadesa