Motivational Quotes

Anger

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

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

Ellis, Havelock

2.

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.

3.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

4.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

5.

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

Bible

6.

Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.

Henry, M.

7.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

8.

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

9.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

10.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Proverb

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Thurber, James

17.

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

18.

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

Maxim, Samurai

19.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

20.

If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wring, but the coals are.

Beecher, Henry Ward

21.

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

Greg Evans

22.

Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.

Henry Ward Beecher

23.

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

Shakespeare, William

24.

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.

Fuller, Thomas

25.

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

Joubert, Joseph

26.

The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence.

Beecher, Henry Ward

27.

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

28.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

29.

I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

Colby, Frank Moore

30.

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

Sarnoff, David

31.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

32.

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

Bible

33.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

34.

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

Buddha

35.

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

Proverb

36.

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

37.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

38.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

39.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

40.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.