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

Doomed are the hotheads! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, I'm sorry.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Mckay, David O.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much; such men are dangerous. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. [James 1:19-20]

Bible

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

Angelou, Maya

10.

To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.

Watts, Alan W.

11.

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

12.

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

Bacon, Francis

13.

I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

Barton, Clara

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Shenstone, William

17.

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

18.

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

Mizner, Wilson

19.

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

Churchill, Winston

20.

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

Bible

21.

The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.

Ruskin, John

22.

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

Russell, Bertrand

23.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

24.

There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.

Dyer, Wayne

25.

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

Hugo, Victor

26.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

27.

No one is as angry as the person who is wrong.

Proverb

28.

The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life.

Maxim, Samurai

29.

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.

30.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

31.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

32.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

33.

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

Baldwin, James

34.

Whenever you get red in the face, whenever you raise your voice, whenever you get hot under the collar or angry, rebellious or negative in spirit, then know that the spirit of God is leaving you and the spirit of Satan is beginning to take over.

35.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

36.

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.

37.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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.

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

Greg Evans

40.

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

Thurber, James

41.

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

42.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

43.

Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid at the back of reason, to come to the front when bidden. For once it begins to take control of the mind, it calls just what it does cruelly.

Curtis, George William

44.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

45.

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

46.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

47.

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

Bible

48.

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.

49.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

50.

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