Motivational Quotes

Anger

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Angelis, Barbara De

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

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

Maxim, Samurai

If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.

Epictetus

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

Plato

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

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

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

10.

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

Ellis, Havelock

11.

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

Shenstone, William

12.

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.

13.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

14.

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

Wallenda, Karl

15.

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

Mario Puzo

16.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

17.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

18.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

19.

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

Mizner, Wilson

20.

The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.

Lucan, F. L.

21.

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

Churchill, Winston

22.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

23.

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

Freud, Sigmund

24.

Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

Quarles, Francis

25.

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

Ruskin, John

26.

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

Bible

27.

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

Harris, Sidney J.

28.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

29.

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

Fuller, Thomas

30.

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

31.

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.

32.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

33.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

34.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

35.

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

Emily Dickinson

36.

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

Pope, Alexander

37.

The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression. [Proverbs 19:11]

Bible

38.

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

39.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

40.

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

Sarnoff, David

41.

Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.

Tupper, Martin

42.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

43.

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

44.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

45.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Quarles, Francis

46.

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

47.

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

Joubert, Joseph

48.

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

Russell, Bertrand

49.

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.

50.

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

Hugo, Victor