Motivational Quotes

Anger

Anger is a brief lunacy.

- Horace

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

Scornful men bring a city into a snare, but wise men turn away wrath. [Proverbs 29:8]

Bible

2.

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

3.

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

4.

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

Churchill, Winston

5.

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

Colton, Charles Caleb

6.

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

Freud, Sigmund

7.

The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them. [Proverbs 12:6]

Bible

8.

The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.

Lucan, F. L.

9.

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

Emily Dickinson

10.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Malcolm X

11.

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

Mario Puzo

12.

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

13.

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

Laurence J. Peter

14.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

15.

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

Proverb

16.

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

Ruskin, John

17.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

18.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

19.

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

Dyer, Wayne

20.

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

Proverb

21.

Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.

Fuller, Thomas

22.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

23.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

24.

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

Fuller, Thomas

25.

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

Plato

26.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

27.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

28.

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

Maxim, Samurai

29.

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

Shakespeare, William

30.

The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.

George, David Lloyd

31.

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.

32.

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

Angelou, Maya

33.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

34.

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

35.

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

Sarnoff, David

36.

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

Renard, Jules

37.

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

38.

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

Ellis, Havelock

39.

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

Baldwin, James

40.

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

Shaw, George Bernard

41.

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

42.

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

Aurelius, Marcus

43.

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

44.

Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

Halifax, Edward F.

45.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

46.

If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.

Epictetus

47.

I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.