Motivational Quotes

Anger

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

- Clarendon

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Mario Puzo

The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

Landor, Walter Savage

I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they

White, Elwyn Brooks

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

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

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.

Antonius, Marcus

The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong.

Mizner, Wilson

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.

10.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

11.

Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.

Henry Ward Beecher

12.

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

Syrus, Publilius

13.

I lose my temper, but it's all over in a minute, said the student. So is the hydrogen bomb, I replied. But think of the damage it produces!

Sweeting, George

14.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

15.

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

Clarendon

16.

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.

17.

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

Angelou, Maya

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

21.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

22.

Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. [Ecclesiastes 7:9]

Bible

23.

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

24.

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

25.

Anger makes dull men witty -- but it keeps them poor.

Bacon, Francis

26.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

27.

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

Floyd, Pink

28.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

29.

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

Thurber, James

30.

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.

31.

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

Hull, Bobby

32.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

33.

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

Sarnoff, David

34.

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

Shakespeare, William

35.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

36.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

37.

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

Dyer, Wayne

38.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

39.

Let not the sun go down upon your wrath. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

40.

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

Ellis, Havelock

41.

The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

42.

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

Emily Dickinson

43.

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

Colton, Charles Caleb

44.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

45.

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

Churchill, Winston

46.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

47.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

48.

I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.

Maxine Waters

49.

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.

50.

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

Baldwin, James