Motivational Quotes

Anger

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

- Corneille, Pierre

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

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

Fuller, Thomas

To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.

Edwards, Tryon

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

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

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

Quincey, Thomas De

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

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

10.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

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.

12.

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

Bible

13.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

14.

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

15.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

16.

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

17.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

18.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Malcolm X

19.

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

Hull, Bobby

20.

The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.

George, David Lloyd

21.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

22.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

Carlyle, Thomas

23.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

24.

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

25.

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

Fuller, Thomas

26.

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

Renard, Jules

27.

Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

Seneca

28.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

29.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

30.

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

Bible

31.

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

32.

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

Proverb, Malabar

33.

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

Mizner, Wilson

34.

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

35.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

36.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

37.

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

Russell, Bertrand

38.

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.

39.

Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.

Babylonian Talmud

40.

The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

41.

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

Floyd, Pink

42.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

43.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

44.

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

Bible

45.

Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

46.

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

47.

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

Buddha

48.

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

49.

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

Proverb

50.

All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.

Paley, Babe