Motivational Quotes

Anger

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Carlyle, Thomas

The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

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

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

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Greg Evans

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

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

Russell, Bertrand

Act nothing in a furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.

Fuller, Thomas

10.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

11.

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.

12.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Angelou, Maya

13.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

14.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

15.

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

Buddha

16.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

17.

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

Hugo, Victor

18.

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

19.

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

Horace

20.

I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they

White, Elwyn Brooks

21.

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

Proverb

22.

I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

Barton, Clara

23.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

24.

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

Thurber, James

25.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

26.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

27.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

28.

I used to store my anger and it affected my play. Now I get it out. I'm never rude to my playing partner. I'm very focused on the ball. Then it's over.

Alfredsson, Helen

29.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

30.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

31.

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

Hull, Bobby

32.

Don't play for safety -- it's the most dangerous thing in the world.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

33.

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

34.

The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

35.

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

Ruskin, John

36.

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

Mario Puzo

37.

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.

Colton, Charles Caleb

38.

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

39.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

40.

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

Maxim, Samurai

41.

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

42.

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

Dyer, Wayne

43.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

44.

Stay out of the road, if you want to grow old.

Floyd, Pink

45.

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.

46.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

47.

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

48.

Whenever you get red in the face, whenever you raise your voice, whenever you get hot under the collar or angry, rebellious or negative in spirit, then know that the spirit of God is leaving you and the spirit of Satan is beginning to take over.

49.

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

Fuller, Thomas

50.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb