Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Gracian, Baltasar

Best Quotes about Anger

Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.

Buddha

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

Emily Dickinson

What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you.

Dyer, Wayne

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

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

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.

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

Dyer, Wayne

10.

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

11.

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

Akhenaton

12.

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

13.

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

Renard, Jules

14.

Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.

Shakespeare, William

15.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

16.

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

17.

Doomed are the hotheads! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, I'm sorry.

Schuller, Robert H.

18.

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

Fuller, Thomas

19.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

20.

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

21.

There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.

Webster, John

22.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

23.

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

Horace

24.

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.

25.

Sticks and stones may break your bones when there's anger to impart. Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart. Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

26.

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

Wallenda, Karl

27.

Nothing is so exhilarating in life as to be shot at with no result.

Churchill, Winston

28.

To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.

Watts, Alan W.

29.

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

30.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

31.

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

Quarles, Francis

32.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

33.

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

Proverb

34.

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

Freud, Sigmund

35.

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

Greer, Germaine

36.

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

Thurber, James

37.

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

Pope, Alexander

38.

Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.

Henry, M.

39.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

40.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

41.

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

42.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

43.

The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.

George, David Lloyd

44.

The best answer to anger is silence.

45.

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

46.

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

47.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

48.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

49.

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

50.

Every man is his own chief enemy.