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

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Mckay, David O.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

10.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

11.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

12.

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.

13.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

14.

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

15.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

16.

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

Clarendon

17.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

18.

Act nothing in a furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.

Fuller, Thomas

19.

I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

Colby, Frank Moore

20.

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

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

Akhenaton

22.

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

Proverb

23.

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

Churchill, Winston

24.

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

Epictetus

25.

The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life.

Maxim, Samurai

26.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

27.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

28.

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.

29.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

30.

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

Pope, Alexander

31.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

32.

The broad general rule is that a man is about as big as the things that make him angry.

33.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

34.

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

Angelou, Maya

35.

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

Ellis, Havelock

36.

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

Buddha

37.

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

Bible

38.

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

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.

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

Harris, Sidney J.

41.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

42.

Whenever you get red in the face, whenever you raise your voice, whenever you get hot under the collar or angry, rebellious or negative in spirit, then know that the spirit of God is leaving you and the spirit of Satan is beginning to take over.

43.

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

44.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

45.

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

46.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Proverb

48.

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

49.

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

Shenstone, William

50.

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