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

1.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

2.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

3.

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.

4.

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

Horace

5.

Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. [Ecclesiastes 7:9]

Bible

6.

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

Syrus, Publilius

7.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

8.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

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.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

11.

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

Proverb

12.

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

13.

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

14.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

15.

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

Greer, Germaine

16.

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

Mario Puzo

17.

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

Sarnoff, David

18.

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

19.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

20.

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

Buddha

21.

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

Thurber, James

22.

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

23.

Let not the sun go down upon your wrath. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

24.

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

Renard, Jules

25.

All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.

Paley, Babe

26.

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

Laurence J. Peter

27.

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.

28.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.

Antonius, Marcus

31.

As the whirlwind in its fury teareth up trees, and deformeth the face of nature, or as an earthquake in its convulsions overturneth whole cities; so the rage of an angry man throweth mischief around him.

Akhenaton

32.

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

Dickinson, Emily

33.

The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.

George, David Lloyd

34.

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

Pope, Alexander

35.

Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.

Greg Evans

36.

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.

37.

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

38.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

39.

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

Mckay, David O.

40.

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

41.

To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.

Edwards, Tryon

42.

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

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.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

45.

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

46.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

47.

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

Emily Dickinson

48.

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

Proverb

49.

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