Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Boyes, John F.

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Quincey, Thomas De

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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

Joubert, Joseph

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.

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

Proverb, Malabar

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

10.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

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

12.

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.

13.

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

14.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

15.

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

16.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

17.

However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

Ellis, Havelock

18.

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

19.

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

Proverb

20.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

21.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

22.

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

Shakespeare, William

23.

Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

Quarles, Francis

24.

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

Seneca

25.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

26.

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

Mizner, Wilson

27.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

28.

The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.

Lucan, F. L.

29.

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

Dyer, Wayne

30.

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

31.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

33.

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

Freud, Sigmund

34.

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

Shakespeare, William

35.

The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.

Long, Haniel

36.

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

37.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

38.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

39.

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

Plato

40.

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

Bible

41.

One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.

Syrus, Publilius

42.

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

Dickinson, Emily

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Bible

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Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.

Henry, M.

48.

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Akhenaton

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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