Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Baldwin, James

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Hull, Bobby

It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.

Riley, James Whitcomb

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

Floyd, Pink

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

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

11.

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.

12.

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

13.

Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.

Henry Ward Beecher

14.

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

Webster, John

15.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

16.

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

17.

However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

Ellis, Havelock

18.

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

19.

Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.

Greg Evans

20.

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

21.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

22.

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

23.

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

24.

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

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

Pope, Alexander

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Akhenaton

29.

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

Bible

30.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

31.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

32.

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

Renard, Jules

33.

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

34.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

35.

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

36.

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.

37.

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

Mckay, David O.

38.

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

Sarnoff, David

39.

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

40.

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

Bible

41.

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.

42.

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

Churchill, Winston

43.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

44.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

45.

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

Bible

46.

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

Proverb, Malabar

47.

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

Russell, Bertrand

48.

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

49.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

50.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma