Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Mario Puzo

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

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

2.

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

Ruskin, John

3.

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

Churchill, Winston

4.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

5.

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

Proverb

6.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

7.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

8.

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

9.

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

Mizner, Wilson

10.

The best answer to anger is silence.

11.

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

12.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

13.

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

14.

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

Baldwin, James

15.

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

Angelou, Maya

16.

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

Floyd, Pink

17.

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

Angelis, Barbara De

18.

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

19.

Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south.

Shakespeare, William

20.

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

Shenstone, William

21.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

22.

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

Bible

23.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

25.

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

Renard, Jules

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Mckay, David O.

30.

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

Sarnoff, David

31.

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

32.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

33.

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.

34.

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

Fuller, Thomas

35.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

36.

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

37.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

38.

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

Greer, Germaine

39.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

40.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

41.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

42.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

43.

He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.

Proverb

44.

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

Bible

45.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

46.

To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.

Edwards, Tryon

47.

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

48.

Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much; such men are dangerous. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

49.

As the whirlwind in its fury teareth up trees, and deformeth the face of nature, or as an earthquake in its convulsions overturneth whole cities; so the rage of an angry man throweth mischief around him.

Akhenaton

50.

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

Buddha