Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

2.

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

Bible

3.

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

4.

Nothing is so exhilarating in life as to be shot at with no result.

Churchill, Winston

5.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

6.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

7.

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

Syrus, Publilius

8.

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

Dyer, Wayne

9.

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

10.

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

11.

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

Fuller, Thomas

12.

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

13.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

14.

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

15.

Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

16.

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

Mizner, Wilson

17.

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

Lucan, F. L.

18.

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

Ellis, Havelock

19.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

20.

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

Dickinson, Emily

21.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

22.

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

Bible

23.

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

24.

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

25.

Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.

Henry Ward Beecher

26.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Shakespeare, William

30.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

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

Shenstone, William

32.

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

Shakespeare, William

33.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

34.

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

Baldwin, James

35.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

36.

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

Shakespeare, William

37.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

38.

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

39.

Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

40.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

41.

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

Russell, Bertrand

42.

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

43.

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

44.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

45.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

46.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

47.

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.