Motivational Quotes

Anger

The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.

- Long, Haniel

Best Quotes about 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

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

Proverb, Malabar

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

Mizner, Wilson

All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.

Paley, Babe

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

Buddha

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

Let not the sun go down upon your wrath. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

10.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

11.

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

12.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

13.

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

Renard, Jules

14.

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

Shenstone, William

15.

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

Proverb

16.

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

Greer, Germaine

17.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

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

20.

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

Pope, Alexander

21.

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

Dyer, Wayne

22.

Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.

Hillard, G. S.

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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

24.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Malcolm X

25.

The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.

Lucan, F. L.

26.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

27.

Scornful men bring a city into a snare, but wise men turn away wrath. [Proverbs 29:8]

Bible

28.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

29.

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

30.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

31.

To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.

Watts, Alan W.

32.

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

Freud, Sigmund

33.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

34.

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

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Long, Haniel

36.

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

George, David Lloyd

37.

Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

Akhenaton

38.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

39.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

40.

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

Quincey, Thomas De

41.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

42.

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

Hull, Bobby

43.

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

44.

The best answer to anger is silence.

45.

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

Emily Dickinson

46.

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

47.

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.

48.

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

Plato

49.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

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

Ruskin, John