Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Floyd, Pink

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

Sarnoff, David

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

Webster, John

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

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Aurelius, Marcus

10.

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

11.

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

Proverb

12.

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

Dyer, Wayne

13.

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

Freud, Sigmund

14.

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

15.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

16.

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

17.

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

Boyes, John F.

18.

When you meet up with a disagreeable person, never allow yourself to be upset. Say to yourself,if a dowdy like that can stand himself all his life, surely I can stand him for a few minutes.

19.

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

20.

Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid at the back of reason, to come to the front when bidden. For once it begins to take control of the mind, it calls just what it does cruelly.

Curtis, George William

21.

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

22.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

23.

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

Mizner, Wilson

24.

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

Ellis, Havelock

25.

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

26.

Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.

Mario Puzo

27.

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

Akhenaton

28.

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

29.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

31.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

32.

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

33.

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

Mckay, David O.

34.

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

Ruskin, John

35.

I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

Barton, Clara

36.

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

37.

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

Bible

38.

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

Epictetus

39.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

40.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

41.

Nothing is so exhilarating in life as to be shot at with no result.

Churchill, Winston

42.

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

Laurence J. Peter

43.

The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

Landor, Walter Savage

44.

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

45.

The best answer to anger is silence.

46.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

47.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

48.

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

Fuller, Thomas

49.

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

50.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian