Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

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

2.

Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much; such men are dangerous. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

3.

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

4.

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

5.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

6.

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

Bible

7.

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.

Cherie Carter-Scott

8.

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

Bible

9.

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

Bible

10.

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

Horace

11.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

12.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

13.

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

Lucan, F. L.

14.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Akhenaton

18.

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

Shaw, George Bernard

19.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

20.

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

Fuller, Thomas

21.

Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

Proverb, Malabar

22.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

23.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

24.

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

Floyd, Pink

25.

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

Secker, Thomas

26.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

27.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

28.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

29.

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

Bible

30.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

31.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

32.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

33.

Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

37.

To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.

Edwards, Tryon

38.

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

39.

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

Bible

40.

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

Aurelius, Marcus

41.

It is better to do thine own duty, however lacking in merit, than to do that of another, even though efficiently. It is better to die doing one's own duty, for to do the duty of another is fraught with danger.

Bhagavad Gita

42.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

43.

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.

44.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

45.

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

Dickinson, Emily

46.

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.

47.

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

48.

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

Greer, Germaine

49.

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

Mckay, David O.

50.

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