Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

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 makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.

Cherie Carter-Scott

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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.

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

Pope, Alexander

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

10.

Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

11.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

12.

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

Secker, Thomas

13.

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

14.

Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.

Halifax, Edward F.

15.

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

Mario Puzo

16.

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

17.

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

Sarnoff, David

18.

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

Floyd, Pink

19.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

20.

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

Laurence J. Peter

21.

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

Renard, Jules

22.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

23.

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

Hugo, Victor

24.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Bible

28.

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

Dickinson, Emily

29.

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

Ellis, Havelock

30.

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

31.

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

32.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

33.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

34.

The best answer to anger is silence.

35.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

36.

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

37.

Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid at the back of reason, to come to the front when bidden. For once it begins to take control of the mind, it calls just what it does cruelly.

Curtis, George William

38.

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

Proverb

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.

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

Dyer, Wayne

41.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

42.

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

Maxim, Samurai

43.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Churchill, Winston

47.

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

Joubert, Joseph

48.

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

49.

The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

50.

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