Motivational Quotes

Anger

He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.

- Magnus, Saint Albertus

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

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

Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.

Babylonian Talmud

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

Proverb

Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

Seneca

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

10.

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

Floyd, Pink

11.

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

Fuller, Thomas

12.

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

Laurence J. Peter

13.

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

14.

Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.

Wallenda, Karl

15.

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

16.

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

Bible

17.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

18.

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

Shakespeare, William

19.

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

20.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

George, David Lloyd

22.

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

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

Greer, Germaine

24.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

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

Greg Evans

26.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

27.

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

28.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

29.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

30.

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

31.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

32.

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

Freud, Sigmund

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Pope, Alexander

36.

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

Mizner, Wilson

37.

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

38.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

39.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

40.

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

Renard, Jules

41.

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

42.

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

Mckay, David O.

43.

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.

44.

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

Baldwin, James

45.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

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

Angelou, Maya

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The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.

Nehru, Jawaharlal