Motivational Quotes

Anger

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

- Harriet Lerner

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

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

Greg Evans

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

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

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Baldwin, James

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

10.

The broad general rule is that a man is about as big as the things that make him angry.

11.

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

Secker, Thomas

12.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

13.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

14.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

15.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

16.

Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.

Mckay, David O.

17.

However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

Ellis, Havelock

18.

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

Dyer, Wayne

19.

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

Buddha

20.

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

21.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

22.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

23.

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

Thurber, James

24.

Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, everyone should be serene, slow-pulsed and calm.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

25.

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

Syrus, Publilius

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Akhenaton

29.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

30.

It is better to do thine own duty, however lacking in merit, than to do that of another, even though efficiently. It is better to die doing one's own duty, for to do the duty of another is fraught with danger.

Bhagavad Gita

31.

Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. [Ecclesiastes 7:9]

Bible

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Mizner, Wilson

36.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

37.

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

Proverb

38.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

39.

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

Boyes, John F.

40.

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

41.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

42.

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

Edwards, Tryon

43.

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

44.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

45.

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.

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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

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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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.

Long, Haniel

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Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth