Motivational Quotes

Anger

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

- Harris, Sidney J.

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

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

Hugo, Victor

If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself:'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.'When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.

Epictetus

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

Angelis, Barbara De

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

10.

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

11.

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

Proverb, Malabar

12.

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

13.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

14.

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

15.

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

Freud, Sigmund

16.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

17.

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

Mckay, David O.

18.

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

19.

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

Fuller, Thomas

20.

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

21.

He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.

Magnus, Saint Albertus

22.

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

23.

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

Syrus, Publilius

24.

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

25.

Actually, the streets are quite safe today, it's the people on them who aren't.

26.

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

Plato

27.

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

Shakespeare, William

28.

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

Webster, John

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Russell, Bertrand

32.

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

Boyes, John F.

33.

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

Churchill, Winston

34.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

35.

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

Buddha

36.

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

Baldwin, James

37.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

38.

Let not the sun go down upon your wrath. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

39.

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

40.

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Seneca

44.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

45.

No one is as angry as the person who is wrong.

Proverb

46.

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.

47.

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

Dyer, Wayne

48.

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

49.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

50.

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