Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Dickinson, Emily

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

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

2.

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

Proverb, Malabar

3.

It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.

Riley, James Whitcomb

4.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

5.

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

6.

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

Sarnoff, David

7.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

8.

It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and angry woman. [Proverbs 21:19]

Bible

9.

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

10.

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

Boyes, John F.

11.

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

Fuller, Thomas

12.

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

Dyer, Wayne

13.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

14.

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

Renard, Jules

15.

He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

Plato

16.

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

Shakespeare, William

17.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

18.

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.

19.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

20.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

22.

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

23.

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

Mario Puzo

24.

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

Bible

25.

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

26.

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

Maxim, Samurai

27.

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

28.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

29.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

30.

Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.

Greer, Germaine

31.

The best answer to anger is silence.

32.

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.

33.

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.

34.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

35.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

36.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

37.

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

Mizner, Wilson

38.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

39.

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

Lucan, F. L.

40.

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

41.

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

Joubert, Joseph

42.

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

Floyd, Pink

43.

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

Buddha

44.

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

Proverb

45.

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

Proverb

46.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

47.

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

Bacon, Francis

48.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

49.

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

50.

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

Freud, Sigmund