Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

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.

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

Greg Evans

3.

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

Bible

4.

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

5.

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

Dyer, Wayne

6.

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.

7.

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.

8.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

9.

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

Greer, Germaine

10.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

11.

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

Floyd, Pink

12.

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

Emily Dickinson

13.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

14.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

15.

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

16.

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

Quarles, Francis

17.

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

18.

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

Baldwin, James

19.

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

20.

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

Shaw, George Bernard

21.

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

Horace

22.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

23.

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

Maxim, Samurai

24.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

25.

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

Shakespeare, William

26.

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

Shenstone, William

27.

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

Bible

28.

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

Joubert, Joseph

29.

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

Thurber, James

30.

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

31.

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

Fuller, Thomas

32.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

33.

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

Angelou, Maya

34.

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

Mario Puzo

35.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

36.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

37.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

38.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

39.

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

40.

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

Shakespeare, William

41.

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

Boyes, John F.

42.

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

Akhenaton

43.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

44.

Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.

Henry, M.

45.

The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.

Lucan, F. L.

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Mizner, Wilson

49.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

50.

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