Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

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

George, David Lloyd

Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.

Shakespeare, William

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

Seneca

When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out -- because that's what's inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside.

Dyer, Wayne

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

Anger makes dull men witty -- but it keeps them poor.

Bacon, Francis

10.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

11.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

12.

Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south.

Shakespeare, William

13.

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

Dickinson, Emily

14.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

15.

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

16.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

17.

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

18.

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

Pope, Alexander

19.

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

20.

The best answer to anger is silence.

21.

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

22.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

25.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

26.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

27.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

28.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

29.

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

30.

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

Proverb

31.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

32.

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

Freud, Sigmund

33.

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

Baldwin, James

34.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

35.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

36.

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

37.

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

Bible

38.

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

Boyes, John F.

39.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

40.

The broad general rule is that a man is about as big as the things that make him angry.

41.

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

Fuller, Thomas

42.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

43.

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

Angelou, Maya

44.

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

Shakespeare, William

45.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

46.

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

Proverb

47.

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

48.

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

Bible

49.

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

Aristotle

50.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel