Motivational Quotes

Anger

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

- Harriet Lerner

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

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

2.

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

Fuller, Thomas

3.

Anger makes dull men witty -- but it keeps them poor.

Bacon, Francis

4.

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

Hull, Bobby

5.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

6.

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

7.

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.

8.

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

9.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

10.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

11.

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

12.

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

Edwards, Tryon

13.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

14.

Stay out of the road, if you want to grow old.

Floyd, Pink

15.

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.

16.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.

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

Dyer, Wayne

18.

If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wring, but the coals are.

Beecher, Henry Ward

19.

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

Mckay, David O.

20.

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

21.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

22.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

23.

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

Syrus, Publilius

24.

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

Bible

25.

I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.

Maxine Waters

26.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

27.

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

Boyes, John F.

28.

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

Churchill, Winston

29.

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

Shenstone, William

30.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

31.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

32.

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.

33.

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

34.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

35.

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

36.

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

Maxim, Samurai

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.

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

39.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

40.

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

Shakespeare, William

41.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

42.

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