Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned; By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned.

Pope, Alexander

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

Mario Puzo

He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.

Proverb

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Shakespeare, William

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

When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out -- because that's what's inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

10.

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

Aristotle

11.

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

12.

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

Bible

13.

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.

14.

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.

15.

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

Horace

16.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

17.

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

18.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

19.

When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

Jefferson, Thomas

20.

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

21.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

22.

If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.

Epictetus

23.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

24.

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

Webster, John

25.

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

26.

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

Buddha

27.

Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.

Henry, M.

28.

No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.

Brown, John Mason

29.

There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.

Francis De Sales, St.

30.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

32.

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

33.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

34.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

38.

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

Quarles, Francis

39.

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

Bacon, Francis

40.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

41.

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

42.

Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.

Hillard, G. S.

43.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

44.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

45.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

46.

Sticks and stones may break your bones when there's anger to impart. Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart. Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

47.

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

Sarnoff, David

48.

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

Hull, Bobby

49.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

50.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus