Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Mario Puzo

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

Joubert, Joseph

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

Horace

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

Floyd, Pink

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and angry woman. [Proverbs 21:19]

Bible

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

10.

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

Proverb

11.

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

12.

Sticks and stones may break your bones when there's anger to impart. Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart. Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

13.

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

Shakespeare, William

14.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

15.

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

Dyer, Wayne

16.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

17.

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

Bible

18.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

19.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

20.

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

21.

What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you.

Dyer, Wayne

22.

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

Angelou, Maya

23.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.

Buddha

24.

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

25.

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

Gracian, Baltasar

26.

I have seen a peaceful expression turn to anger as fast as a whip cracks, and so the look on the face might mean less than what it seems to be.

Erica Eisdorfer

27.

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

Webster, John

28.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

29.

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

30.

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

Freud, Sigmund

31.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

Carlyle, Thomas

32.

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

Greer, Germaine

33.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

34.

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

35.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

36.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

37.

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

Hull, Bobby

38.

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

Akhenaton

39.

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

40.

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.

41.

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

Fuller, Thomas

42.

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

43.

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

44.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

45.

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

Buddha

46.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

47.

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

48.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

49.

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

50.

Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.

Hillard, G. S.