Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Greer, Germaine

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

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

Fuller, Thomas

2.

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

Clarendon

3.

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.

4.

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

Shenstone, William

5.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

6.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

7.

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

Emily Dickinson

8.

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

Webster, John

9.

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

10.

The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

Landor, Walter Savage

11.

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

Laurence J. Peter

12.

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

Bible

13.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

14.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

15.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

16.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

17.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

18.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

19.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

20.

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

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.

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

23.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

24.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

25.

Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south.

Shakespeare, William

26.

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.

27.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

28.

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

29.

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

30.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

31.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

32.

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

Hull, Bobby

33.

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

Joubert, Joseph

34.

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

Greer, Germaine

35.

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.

36.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

37.

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

38.

Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

39.

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

Mizner, Wilson

40.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

41.

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

Bible

42.

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

Russell, Bertrand

43.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.

Buddha

44.

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

45.

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

Freud, Sigmund

46.

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

Dyer, Wayne

47.

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

48.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

49.

When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

Jefferson, Thomas

50.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott