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

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

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

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

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.

Paley, Babe

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

10.

Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid at the back of reason, to come to the front when bidden. For once it begins to take control of the mind, it calls just what it does cruelly.

Curtis, George William

11.

Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

12.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

13.

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.

14.

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

Freud, Sigmund

15.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

16.

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

Sarnoff, David

17.

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.

18.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

19.

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

Bible

20.

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

Maxim, Samurai

21.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

22.

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

23.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

24.

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

Greg Evans

25.

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.

26.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

27.

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

28.

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

29.

No one is as angry as the person who is wrong.

Proverb

30.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

31.

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

Proverb

32.

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

Thurber, James

33.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

34.

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

Fuller, Thomas

35.

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

Renard, Jules

36.

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

Angelou, Maya

37.

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

Greer, Germaine

38.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

39.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

40.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

46.

The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

47.

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

Bible

48.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

49.

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

50.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus