Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Dyer, Wayne

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

2.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Angelou, Maya

3.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

4.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

5.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

6.

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

Baldwin, James

7.

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

Bible

8.

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

Dyer, Wayne

9.

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

Proverb

10.

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.

11.

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

Shakespeare, William

12.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

13.

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

14.

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

Horace

15.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

16.

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

17.

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

Joubert, Joseph

18.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

19.

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

Lucan, F. L.

20.

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

Epictetus

21.

Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.

Wallenda, Karl

22.

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

23.

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

25.

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

26.

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

Proverb

27.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

28.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

29.

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

Dyer, Wayne

30.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

31.

The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

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

Seneca

33.

When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other.

Gaulle, Charles De

34.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

35.

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

36.

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

37.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

38.

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

39.

Sticks and stones may break your bones when there's anger to impart. Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart. Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

40.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Quarles, Francis

41.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

42.

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

Russell, Bertrand

43.

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

Syrus, Publilius

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.

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

Emily Dickinson

46.

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

Mizner, Wilson

47.

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

Bible

48.

Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.