Motivational Quotes

Anger

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.

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

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

2.

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

Greg Evans

3.

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

Joubert, Joseph

4.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

5.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

6.

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.

7.

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

Proverb

8.

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.

9.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

10.

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

Bible

11.

Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.

Baldwin, James

12.

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

Webster, John

13.

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

Quarles, Francis

14.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

15.

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

Churchill, Winston

16.

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

Secker, Thomas

17.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

18.

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

19.

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

Laurence J. Peter

20.

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

Plato

21.

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

Angelou, Maya

22.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

23.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

24.

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

Hugo, Victor

25.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

26.

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

27.

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

Mizner, Wilson

28.

The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.

Ruskin, John

29.

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

30.

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

Seneca

31.

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

32.

A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied with small gains, which will come by creative adaptations.

I Ching

33.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

34.

Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.

Mario Puzo

35.

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

Shakespeare, William

36.

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

Shakespeare, William

37.

Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.

Henry Ward Beecher

38.

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

Freud, Sigmund

39.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

40.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

41.

Danger -- if you meet it promptly and without flinching -- you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Churchill, Winston

42.

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

43.

Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.

Babylonian Talmud

44.

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

Maxim, Samurai

45.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

46.

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

Shakespeare, William

47.

There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.