Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Dickinson, Emily

Best Quotes about Anger

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. [James 1:19-20]

Bible

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.

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

Mizner, Wilson

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

Hugo, Victor

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

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

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

10.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

11.

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

Fuller, Thomas

12.

I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they

White, Elwyn Brooks

13.

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

14.

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

Secker, Thomas

15.

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

Proverb

16.

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.

17.

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

18.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

19.

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

Shakespeare, William

20.

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

Dyer, Wayne

21.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

We are confronted by a first danger, the destructiveness of applied atomic energy. And then we are confronted by a second danger, that we do not enough appreciate the first danger.

Swing, Raymond G.

23.

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

24.

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

25.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

26.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

27.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

28.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

29.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

33.

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

34.

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

Proverb

35.

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

Freud, Sigmund

36.

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

37.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

38.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

39.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

40.

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

Harris, Sidney J.

41.

One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.

Syrus, Publilius

42.

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

Fuller, Thomas

43.

Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

Quarles, Francis

44.

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.

Cherie Carter-Scott

45.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

46.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

47.

Actually, the streets are quite safe today, it's the people on them who aren't.