Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Dickinson, Emily

Best Quotes about Anger

Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

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

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

Shakespeare, William

Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, everyone should be serene, slow-pulsed and calm.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Bible

10.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

Bierce, Ambrose

11.

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

12.

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

Akhenaton

13.

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

Bible

14.

No one can make us angry. People can say and do things to us but it is still up to us as individuals to do what we want with our emotions in response to those things.

15.

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

Epictetus

16.

If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wring, but the coals are.

Beecher, Henry Ward

17.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

18.

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

Webster, John

19.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

20.

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

21.

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

22.

Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

Halifax, Edward F.

23.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

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.

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

26.

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

Proverb, Malabar

27.

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

Seneca

28.

The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence.

Beecher, Henry Ward

29.

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

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The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.

Long, Haniel

31.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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

33.

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

Mario Puzo

34.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

35.

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Proverb

37.

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

Mizner, Wilson

38.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

39.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

40.

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

41.

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

Shenstone, William

42.

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

43.

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

Emily Dickinson

44.

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

Buddha

45.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

46.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

47.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

48.

Nothing is so exhilarating in life as to be shot at with no result.

Churchill, Winston

49.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

50.

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