Motivational Quotes

Anger

There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.

- Francis De Sales, St.

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

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

Horace

2.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

3.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

4.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

5.

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

Pope, Alexander

6.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

7.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

8.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

9.

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

Proverb

10.

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.

11.

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

12.

Danger -- if you meet it promptly and without flinching -- you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Churchill, Winston

13.

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

Bible

14.

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

Colton, Charles Caleb

15.

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

George, David Lloyd

16.

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

17.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

18.

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

19.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

20.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

21.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

22.

Sticks and stones may break your bones when there's anger to impart. Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart. Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

23.

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.

24.

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

Greg Evans

25.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

26.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

27.

Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

Halifax, Edward F.

28.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

29.

My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. [James 1:19-20]

Bible

30.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

31.

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

Boyes, John F.

32.

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

33.

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

Secker, Thomas

34.

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

Russell, Bertrand

35.

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

Shenstone, William

36.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Malcolm X

37.

The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances boldly to meet them head on. The weak man grows agitated. But the superior man stands up to fate, endures resolutely in his inner certainty If ignorant both

I Ching

38.

Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.

Hull, Bobby

39.

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

40.

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

41.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

42.

Anger makes dull men witty -- but it keeps them poor.

Bacon, Francis

43.

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

44.

Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.