Motivational Quotes

Anger

No person is important enough to make me angry.

- Castaneda, Carlos

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

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

2.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

3.

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

4.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

5.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

6.

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

Hugo, Victor

7.

Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south.

Shakespeare, William

8.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

9.

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

10.

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

Emily Dickinson

11.

The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.

Freud, Sigmund

12.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

13.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

14.

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

15.

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

Lucan, F. L.

16.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

17.

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

18.

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

Akhenaton

19.

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

20.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

21.

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

22.

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

Laurence J. Peter

23.

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

24.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

25.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

26.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

Joubert, Joseph

27.

Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.

Cervantes, Miguel De

28.

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

29.

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

Secker, Thomas

30.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

31.

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

Bible

32.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

33.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

34.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

35.

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

36.

He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.

Magnus, Saint Albertus

37.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

38.

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

39.

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

40.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

41.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

42.

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

Hull, Bobby

43.

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

44.

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

45.

Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

46.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

47.

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

48.

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

Quarles, Francis