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

1.

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

Sarnoff, David

2.

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

Laurence J. Peter

3.

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

4.

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

5.

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

Bible

6.

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

Churchill, Winston

7.

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

8.

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

Proverb, Malabar

9.

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

Dyer, Wayne

10.

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

Churchill, Winston

11.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

12.

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

Dickinson, Emily

13.

Anyone can become angry -- that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way -- this is not easy.

Aristotle

14.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

15.

There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.

Webster, John

16.

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

Renard, Jules

17.

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

Proverb

18.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

19.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

20.

Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.

Mckay, David O.

21.

A soft answer truth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger. [Proverbs 15:1]

Bible

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

25.

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

26.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

27.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

28.

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

Maxim, Samurai

29.

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

Russell, Bertrand

30.

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

Mario Puzo

31.

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

Fuller, Thomas

32.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

33.

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.

34.

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

Proverb

35.

Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.

Hull, Bobby

36.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

37.

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

38.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

39.

I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they

White, Elwyn Brooks

40.

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

Horace

41.

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.

42.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

43.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

44.

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

45.

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

46.

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

47.

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

Syrus, Publilius

48.

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

49.

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

Shakespeare, William

50.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis