Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

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.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Fuller, Thomas

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

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

Act nothing in a furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Schuller, Robert H.

10.

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

Bible

11.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

12.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

13.

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.

14.

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.

15.

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.

16.

To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.

Watts, Alan W.

17.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

18.

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

Proverb

19.

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

20.

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

Russell, Bertrand

21.

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

22.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

23.

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

Dyer, Wayne

24.

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

25.

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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It is better to do thine own duty, however lacking in merit, than to do that of another, even though efficiently. It is better to die doing one's own duty, for to do the duty of another is fraught with danger.

Bhagavad Gita

27.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

28.

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

29.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

30.

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

31.

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

Akhenaton

32.

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

33.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

34.

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

35.

When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other.

Gaulle, Charles De

36.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Quarles, Francis

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.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

39.

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

40.

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

Floyd, Pink

41.

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

Thurber, James

42.

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

43.

If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wring, but the coals are.

Beecher, Henry Ward

44.

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

45.

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

Syrus, Publilius

46.

Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.

Baldwin, James

47.

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

48.

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

Ellis, Havelock

49.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

50.

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

Proverb