Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Freud, Sigmund

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

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.

2.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

3.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

4.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

5.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

6.

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

Shakespeare, William

7.

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

Churchill, Winston

8.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

9.

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

Hull, Bobby

10.

Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

Proverb, Malabar

11.

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

Bible

12.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

13.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

14.

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

15.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

16.

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

Buddha

17.

Doomed are the hotheads! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, I'm sorry.

Schuller, Robert H.

18.

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

19.

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

Mizner, Wilson

20.

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

Thurber, James

21.

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

Bacon, Francis

22.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

23.

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

Proverb

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.

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

Freud, Sigmund

26.

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

Bible

27.

The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life.

Maxim, Samurai

28.

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

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.

The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.

Ruskin, John

31.

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

Renard, Jules

32.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

33.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

34.

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.

35.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

36.

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

Dyer, Wayne

37.

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.

38.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

39.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

40.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

41.

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

Pope, Alexander

42.

There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.

Webster, John

43.

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

44.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

45.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

46.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

47.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

48.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

49.

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

50.

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

Laurence J. Peter