Motivational Quotes

Anger

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

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

2.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

3.

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

Mario Puzo

4.

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.

5.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

6.

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

Angelou, Maya

7.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

8.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

9.

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

Renard, Jules

10.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

11.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

12.

The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

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

14.

Anger is one letter short of danger, Greatest remedy for anger is delay

15.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

16.

Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.

Greer, Germaine

17.

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

18.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

19.

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

Floyd, Pink

20.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

21.

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

Syrus, Publilius

22.

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

Joubert, Joseph

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Thurber, James

27.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

28.

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

Freud, Sigmund

29.

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

Bible

30.

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

31.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

32.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

33.

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

Churchill, Winston

34.

I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.

Maxine Waters

35.

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

36.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

37.

Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.

Mckay, David O.

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Laurence J. Peter

41.

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

Hull, Bobby

42.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

43.

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

Aristotle

44.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

45.

The best answer to anger is silence.

46.

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

47.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

48.

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

Fuller, Thomas

49.

No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.

Brown, John Mason

50.

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