Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Maxim, Samurai

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

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

2.

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

Dyer, Wayne

3.

Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.

Buddha

4.

The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression. [Proverbs 19:11]

Bible

5.

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

Wallenda, Karl

6.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

7.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

8.

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

9.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

10.

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

Angelou, Maya

11.

The best answer to anger is silence.

12.

Don't play for safety -- it's the most dangerous thing in the world.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

13.

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

Sarnoff, David

14.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

15.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

16.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

17.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

18.

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.

19.

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

Hugo, Victor

20.

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

Mckay, David O.

21.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

22.

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

Joubert, Joseph

23.

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

Epictetus

24.

One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.

Syrus, Publilius

25.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

26.

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

Ellis, Havelock

27.

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

Russell, Bertrand

28.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

29.

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

Colton, Charles Caleb

30.

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

Greg Evans

31.

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

32.

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

Greer, Germaine

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

37.

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

Akhenaton

38.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

39.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

40.

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

Churchill, Winston

41.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

42.

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

43.

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

Laurence J. Peter

44.

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

Mizner, Wilson

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.

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.

47.

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.

48.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

49.

Anger as soon as fed is dead- 'Tis starving makes it fat.

Emily Dickinson

50.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Quarles, Francis