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

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

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Bible

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.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

Baldwin, James

10.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

Joubert, Joseph

11.

Do not suppress it-that would hurt you inside. Do not express it-this would not only hurt you inside, it would cause ripples in your surroundings. What you do is transform it.

Pilgrim, Peace

12.

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

13.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

14.

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

Webster, John

15.

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

Epictetus

16.

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

Thurber, James

17.

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.

18.

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

19.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

20.

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

21.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

22.

It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.

Riley, James Whitcomb

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

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 go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

26.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

27.

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

28.

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

Hugo, Victor

29.

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

Syrus, Publilius

30.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

31.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

32.

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

Dyer, Wayne

33.

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

Akhenaton

34.

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

George, David Lloyd

35.

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

Fuller, Thomas

36.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

39.

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

Secker, Thomas

40.

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

Dickinson, Emily

41.

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

Seneca

42.

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

Bacon, Francis

43.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

44.

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

Shakespeare, William

45.

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

46.

The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them. [Proverbs 12:6]

Bible

47.

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.

48.

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

Freud, Sigmund

49.

When you meet up with a disagreeable person, never allow yourself to be upset. Say to yourself,if a dowdy like that can stand himself all his life, surely I can stand him for a few minutes.

50.

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