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

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

Shakespeare, William

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

Anyone can become angry -- that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way -- this is not easy.

Aristotle

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

Fuller, Thomas

10.

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

Proverb

11.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

12.

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

Mckay, David O.

13.

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

Floyd, Pink

14.

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

15.

Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.

Mario Puzo

16.

Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.

Wallenda, Karl

17.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

18.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

19.

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

Emily Dickinson

20.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

21.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

22.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

23.

Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

24.

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

25.

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

26.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

27.

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

28.

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

Horace

29.

Do not suppress it-that would hurt you inside. Do not express it-this would not only hurt you inside, it would cause ripples in your surroundings. What you do is transform it.

Pilgrim, Peace

30.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

Carlyle, Thomas

31.

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.

32.

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

Akhenaton

33.

The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances boldly to meet them head on. The weak man grows agitated. But the superior man stands up to fate, endures resolutely in his inner certainty If ignorant both

I Ching

34.

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

35.

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

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.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

38.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

39.

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

Bible

40.

The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.

George, David Lloyd

41.

The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

Landor, Walter Savage

42.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

43.

The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life.

Maxim, Samurai

44.

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.

45.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

46.

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

Fuller, Thomas

47.

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

Baldwin, James

48.

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

49.

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

Greer, Germaine

50.

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