Motivational Quotes

Anger

There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.

- Dyer, Wayne

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

2.

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

Mizner, Wilson

3.

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

4.

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

5.

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

6.

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

Bacon, Francis

7.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

8.

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

Dyer, Wayne

9.

Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south.

Shakespeare, William

10.

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

Bible

11.

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

12.

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

Plato

13.

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

14.

I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

Barton, Clara

15.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

16.

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

Horace

17.

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

18.

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

Bible

19.

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.

20.

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

Proverb, Malabar

21.

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

Pope, Alexander

22.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

23.

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

Fuller, Thomas

24.

There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.

Dyer, Wayne

25.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

26.

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

Seneca

27.

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

Boyes, John F.

28.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

29.

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

30.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

31.

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

Shenstone, William

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.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

34.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

35.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

36.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

37.

A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied with small gains, which will come by creative adaptations.

I Ching

38.

Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.

Buddha

39.

Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.

Baldwin, James

40.

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

Maxim, Samurai

41.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

42.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

43.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

44.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

45.

The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances boldly to meet them head on. The weak man grows agitated. But the superior man stands up to fate, endures resolutely in his inner certainty If ignorant both

I Ching

46.

It is better to do thine own duty, however lacking in merit, than to do that of another, even though efficiently. It is better to die doing one's own duty, for to do the duty of another is fraught with danger.

Bhagavad Gita

47.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

48.

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

Syrus, Publilius

49.

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

50.

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.