Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

2.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

3.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Angelou, Maya

4.

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

Shenstone, William

5.

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

Buddha

6.

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

Seneca

7.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

8.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

9.

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

Quarles, Francis

10.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

11.

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

12.

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

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.

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

Floyd, Pink

15.

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

16.

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

17.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

18.

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

Dickinson, Emily

19.

The best answer to anger is silence.

20.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

21.

To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.

Edwards, Tryon

22.

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

23.

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

24.

The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression. [Proverbs 19:11]

Bible

25.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

26.

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

Dyer, Wayne

27.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

28.

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

George, David Lloyd

29.

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

Baldwin, James

30.

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

31.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

32.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

33.

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

34.

Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.

Fuller, Thomas

35.

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

Mckay, David O.

36.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.

Buddha

37.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

38.

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

39.

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

40.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

41.

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

Fuller, Thomas

42.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

43.

Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

44.

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

Pope, Alexander

45.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

50.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo