Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Russell, Bertrand

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

Quarles, Francis

Whenever you get red in the face, whenever you raise your voice, whenever you get hot under the collar or angry, rebellious or negative in spirit, then know that the spirit of God is leaving you and the spirit of Satan is beginning to take over.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

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

Dyer, Wayne

Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.

Greer, Germaine

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

Quarles, Francis

10.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

11.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

12.

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.

13.

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

Fuller, Thomas

14.

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

15.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

16.

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

17.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Proverb

18.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

19.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

20.

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.

21.

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

Shenstone, William

22.

Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.

Henry, M.

23.

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

24.

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

Proverb

25.

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

Ruskin, John

26.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

27.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

28.

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

29.

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

Seneca

30.

The best answer to anger is silence.

31.

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

Shakespeare, William

32.

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

Fuller, Thomas

33.

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

34.

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

Proverb

35.

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

36.

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

Bible

37.

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

Hugo, Victor

38.

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.

39.

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

40.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

41.

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

Floyd, Pink

42.

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

43.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

44.

Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.

Cervantes, Miguel De

45.

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

Boyes, John F.

46.

The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression. [Proverbs 19:11]

Bible

47.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

48.

The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong.

Mizner, Wilson

49.

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

50.

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