Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

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

2.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

3.

The best answer to anger is silence.

4.

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

Shenstone, William

5.

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

Angelou, Maya

6.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

7.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

8.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

9.

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

10.

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

11.

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

Akhenaton

12.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

13.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

14.

The broad general rule is that a man is about as big as the things that make him angry.

15.

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

16.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

17.

The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

18.

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

Freud, Sigmund

19.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Fuller, Thomas

25.

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

Greer, Germaine

26.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

27.

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

28.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

29.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

30.

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

31.

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

Bible

32.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

33.

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

Aurelius, Marcus

34.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

35.

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

Dyer, Wayne

36.

He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

Plato

37.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Proverb

38.

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

Russell, Bertrand

39.

Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.

Greg Evans

40.

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

41.

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

Proverb, Malabar

42.

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

Mario Puzo

43.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

44.

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