Motivational Quotes

Anger

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about Anger

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Dyer, Wayne

Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.

Antonius, Marcus

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Francis De Sales, St.

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.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Proverb

13.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Secker, Thomas

17.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

18.

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

19.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

20.

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.

Colton, Charles Caleb

21.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

22.

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

Buddha

23.

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

24.

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

Sarnoff, David

25.

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

Joubert, Joseph

26.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

27.

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

Boyes, John F.

28.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

29.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

30.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

31.

Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.

Beecher, Henry Ward

32.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.

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

34.

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

Angelis, Barbara De

35.

The best answer to anger is silence.

36.

When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other.

Gaulle, Charles De

37.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

38.

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

Bible

39.

It is better to do thine own duty, however lacking in merit, than to do that of another, even though efficiently. It is better to die doing one's own duty, for to do the duty of another is fraught with danger.

Bhagavad Gita

40.

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

Emily Dickinson

41.

Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. [Ecclesiastes 7:9]

Bible

42.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

43.

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

Mizner, Wilson

44.

Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

Halifax, Edward F.

45.

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

46.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

47.

He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

Plato

48.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

49.

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

50.

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

Laurence J. Peter