Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Greg Evans

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

Seneca

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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.

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

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.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

Barton, Clara

10.

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

11.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

12.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

13.

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

Lucan, F. L.

14.

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

Bible

15.

Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.

Antonius, Marcus

16.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

17.

As the whirlwind in its fury teareth up trees, and deformeth the face of nature, or as an earthquake in its convulsions overturneth whole cities; so the rage of an angry man throweth mischief around him.

Akhenaton

18.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

19.

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

20.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

21.

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

Proverb, Malabar

22.

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

23.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

24.

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

Sarnoff, David

25.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Malcolm X

26.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

27.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

28.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

29.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

30.

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

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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.

32.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

33.

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

Dyer, Wayne

34.

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

Edwards, Tryon

35.

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

Secker, Thomas

36.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

37.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

38.

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.

39.

I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they

White, Elwyn Brooks

40.

He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

Plato

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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.

42.

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

Shakespeare, William

43.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

44.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Proverb

45.

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.

46.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

47.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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