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

1.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

2.

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

Shenstone, William

3.

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

Emily Dickinson

4.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

5.

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

Bible

6.

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

Dyer, Wayne

7.

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

Dyer, Wayne

8.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

9.

Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.

Beecher, Henry Ward

10.

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

Fuller, Thomas

11.

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

Greer, Germaine

12.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

13.

Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.

Halifax, Edward F.

14.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

18.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

19.

Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

20.

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

Renard, Jules

21.

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

22.

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

Baldwin, James

23.

I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

Barton, Clara

24.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

25.

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

Bible

26.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

27.

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

Churchill, Winston

28.

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

29.

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

Mizner, Wilson

30.

Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much; such men are dangerous. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

31.

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

Dickinson, Emily

32.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

33.

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

Boyes, John F.

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Hull, Bobby

37.

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

Ruskin, John

38.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

39.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

40.

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

Pope, Alexander

41.

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

Greg Evans

42.

All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.

Paley, Babe

43.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

44.

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

Sarnoff, David

45.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

46.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

47.

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

48.

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

Webster, John

49.

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

50.

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

Quarles, Francis