Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Epictetus

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.

Long, Haniel

2.

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.

3.

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

Baldwin, James

4.

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

5.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

6.

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

7.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

Carlyle, Thomas

8.

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

9.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

11.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

12.

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

Churchill, Winston

13.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

14.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

15.

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

Angelis, Barbara De

16.

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

Bible

17.

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.

18.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

19.

Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.

Cervantes, Miguel De

20.

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

Laurence J. Peter

21.

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

Syrus, Publilius

22.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

23.

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

Fuller, Thomas

24.

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.

25.

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

26.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

27.

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

Dyer, Wayne

28.

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

29.

It is better to do thine own duty, however lacking in merit, than to do that of another, even though efficiently. It is better to die doing one's own duty, for to do the duty of another is fraught with danger.

Bhagavad Gita

30.

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

31.

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

32.

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

Mizner, Wilson

33.

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

Renard, Jules

34.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

35.

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

Buddha

36.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

37.

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

Mckay, David O.

38.

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

Pope, Alexander

39.

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

Shakespeare, William

40.

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

Mario Puzo

41.

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

Shenstone, William

42.

Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.

Hillard, G. S.

43.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

44.

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

Quarles, Francis

45.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

46.

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