Motivational Quotes

Anger

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

- Buddha

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

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

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

I used to store my anger and it affected my play. Now I get it out. I'm never rude to my playing partner. I'm very focused on the ball. Then it's over.

Alfredsson, Helen

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

10.

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

Proverb

11.

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

Proverb

12.

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

Greer, Germaine

13.

No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.

Brown, John Mason

14.

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

15.

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

Wallenda, Karl

16.

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

17.

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

Maxim, Samurai

18.

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.

19.

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

20.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

21.

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

Hugo, Victor

22.

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

Lucan, F. L.

23.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

24.

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

Ellis, Havelock

25.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

26.

Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.

Tupper, Martin

27.

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

28.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

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.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

31.

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.

Colton, Charles Caleb

32.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.

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

Renard, Jules

34.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

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.

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

Boyes, John F.

37.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

38.

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

Mckay, David O.

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

42.

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.

43.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

44.

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.

45.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

46.

As the whirlwind in its fury teareth up trees, and deformeth the face of nature, or as an earthquake in its convulsions overturneth whole cities; so the rage of an angry man throweth mischief around him.

Akhenaton

47.

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

Syrus, Publilius

48.

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

49.

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

50.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese