Motivational Quotes

Anger

When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out -- because that's what's inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside.

- Dyer, Wayne

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Schuller, Robert H.

However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

Ellis, Havelock

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

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

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

Whenever you get red in the face, whenever you raise your voice, whenever you get hot under the collar or angry, rebellious or negative in spirit, then know that the spirit of God is leaving you and the spirit of Satan is beginning to take over.

10.

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

Hugo, Victor

11.

If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wring, but the coals are.

Beecher, Henry Ward

12.

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

Mizner, Wilson

13.

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

Akhenaton

14.

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

Bible

15.

In time of danger it is proper to be alarmed until danger be near at hand; but when we perceive that danger is near, we should oppose it as if we were not afraid.

Hitopadesa

16.

I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

Colby, Frank Moore

17.

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

Joubert, Joseph

18.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

19.

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

20.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

21.

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

Buddha

22.

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

Renard, Jules

23.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

24.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

25.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

26.

No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.

Brown, John Mason

27.

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

28.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

29.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

30.

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

31.

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

Sarnoff, David

32.

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

33.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

34.

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

Shakespeare, William

35.

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

Fuller, Thomas

36.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

37.

Anger is one letter short of danger, Greatest remedy for anger is delay

38.

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

Plato

39.

The best answer to anger is silence.

40.

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

41.

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.

42.

The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression. [Proverbs 19:11]

Bible

43.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

44.

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

Dyer, Wayne

45.

The broad general rule is that a man is about as big as the things that make him angry.

46.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

47.

He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.

Proverb

48.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

49.

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

50.

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

Landor, Walter Savage