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

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

We are confronted by a first danger, the destructiveness of applied atomic energy. And then we are confronted by a second danger, that we do not enough appreciate the first danger.

Swing, Raymond G.

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

Churchill, Winston

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

Joan Lunden

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

Ellis, Havelock

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Proverb

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

George, David Lloyd

10.

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

Bible

11.

Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.

Tupper, Martin

12.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

13.

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

Mckay, David O.

14.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

15.

The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.

Freud, Sigmund

16.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

17.

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

Dyer, Wayne

18.

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

Aristotle

19.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

20.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

21.

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

22.

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

23.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.

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

25.

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

Renard, Jules

26.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

27.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

28.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

30.

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

31.

Don't play for safety -- it's the most dangerous thing in the world.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

32.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

33.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

34.

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

35.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

36.

To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.

Watts, Alan W.

37.

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

Greer, Germaine

38.

No one can make us angry. People can say and do things to us but it is still up to us as individuals to do what we want with our emotions in response to those things.

39.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

40.

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

Secker, Thomas

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

45.

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

Akhenaton

46.

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

Shenstone, William

47.

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

48.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

49.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

50.

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

Fuller, Thomas