Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Cherie Carter-Scott

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

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

Fuller, Thomas

2.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

3.

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

Syrus, Publilius

4.

A wave of anger washed over me, anger against myself, at my age at the time, that stupid lyrically age, when a man is too great a riddle to himself to be interested in the riddles outside himself and when other people are mere walking mirrors in which he is amazed to find his own emotions, his own worth.

Kundera, Milan

5.

Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

Proverb, Malabar

6.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

7.

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

8.

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

Ellis, Havelock

9.

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

Webster, John

10.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

11.

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

Quarles, Francis

12.

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

Joubert, Joseph

13.

I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

Colby, Frank Moore

14.

I have seen a peaceful expression turn to anger as fast as a whip cracks, and so the look on the face might mean less than what it seems to be.

Erica Eisdorfer

15.

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

16.

A soft answer truth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger. [Proverbs 15:1]

Bible

17.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

18.

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

Shakespeare, William

19.

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

20.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

21.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

22.

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

Buddha

23.

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

Epictetus

24.

Scornful men bring a city into a snare, but wise men turn away wrath. [Proverbs 29:8]

Bible

25.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

26.

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

Thurber, James

27.

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

28.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

29.

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

Dyer, Wayne

30.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

31.

The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence.

Beecher, Henry Ward

32.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

33.

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

Mckay, David O.

34.

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

35.

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

36.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

37.

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

Lucan, F. L.

38.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

39.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

40.

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

Wallenda, Karl

41.

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

42.

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.

43.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

44.

Danger -- if you meet it promptly and without flinching -- you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Churchill, Winston

45.

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

46.

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

Bible

47.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

48.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

49.

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