Motivational Quotes

Anger

In time of danger it is proper to be alarmed until danger be near at hand; but when we perceive that danger is near, we should oppose it as if we were not afraid.

- Hitopadesa

Best Quotes about Anger

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

Renard, Jules

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

Anger as soon as fed is dead- 'Tis starving makes it fat.

Emily Dickinson

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Floyd, Pink

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

Shenstone, William

10.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

11.

All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.

Paley, Babe

12.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

13.

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

14.

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

15.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

16.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

17.

The best answer to anger is silence.

18.

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

19.

It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and angry woman. [Proverbs 21:19]

Bible

20.

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

Proverb, Malabar

21.

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

Churchill, Winston

22.

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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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

24.

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

25.

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

Russell, Bertrand

26.

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

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

Baldwin, James

28.

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

29.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

30.

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

Ruskin, John

31.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

32.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

33.

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.

34.

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.

Fuller, Thomas

35.

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

Bible

36.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

37.

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

Hugo, Victor

38.

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

39.

When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out -- because that's what's inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside.

Dyer, Wayne

40.

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.

41.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

42.

By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned; By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned.

Pope, Alexander

43.

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

44.

I lose my temper, but it's all over in a minute, said the student. So is the hydrogen bomb, I replied. But think of the damage it produces!

Sweeting, George

45.

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

46.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

47.

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

Edwards, Tryon

48.

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.

49.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

50.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold