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

1.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

2.

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

Edwards, Tryon

3.

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

4.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

5.

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

6.

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

Russell, Bertrand

7.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

8.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

9.

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

George, David Lloyd

10.

Don't play for safety -- it's the most dangerous thing in the world.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

11.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

12.

Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.

Greg Evans

13.

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

Thurber, James

14.

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

15.

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

Proverb, Malabar

16.

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

17.

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

Gracian, Baltasar

18.

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

Mario Puzo

19.

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

Dyer, Wayne

20.

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

21.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

22.

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

Hugo, Victor

23.

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

Epictetus

24.

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

Seneca

25.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

26.

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

Freud, Sigmund

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Ellis, Havelock

30.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Quarles, Francis

31.

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

32.

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.

33.

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

Ruskin, John

34.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

35.

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

36.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

37.

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

38.

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.

39.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

40.

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

Syrus, Publilius

41.

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

Angelou, Maya

42.

The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo