Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Dickinson, Emily

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Renard, Jules

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Seneca

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

Boyes, John F.

The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them. [Proverbs 12:6]

Bible

10.

Act nothing in a furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.

Fuller, Thomas

11.

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

Russell, Bertrand

12.

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

Bible

13.

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

14.

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

Pope, Alexander

15.

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

Hull, Bobby

16.

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

17.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

18.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

19.

The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.

Lucan, F. L.

20.

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.

21.

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

Buddha

22.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

23.

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

Dyer, Wayne

24.

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

Shenstone, William

25.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

26.

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

Akhenaton

27.

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

Bible

28.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

29.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

30.

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.

31.

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

Fuller, Thomas

32.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

33.

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

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.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

36.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

37.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

38.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

39.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.

Buddha

40.

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

Dickinson, Emily

41.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

42.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

43.

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

44.

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

45.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

46.

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

Shakespeare, William

47.

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.

48.

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.

49.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

50.

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