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

He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

Plato

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

Horace

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.

If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.

Epictetus

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

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

Wallenda, Karl

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

Greer, Germaine

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.

Anger makes dull men witty -- but it keeps them poor.

Bacon, Francis

10.

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

Bible

11.

If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wring, but the coals are.

Beecher, Henry Ward

12.

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

Boyes, John F.

13.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

14.

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

Secker, Thomas

15.

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

Mario Puzo

16.

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

Dickinson, Emily

17.

Doomed are the hotheads! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, I'm sorry.

Schuller, Robert H.

18.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

19.

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.

20.

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.

21.

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

22.

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

Proverb

23.

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

Hugo, Victor

24.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

25.

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

Syrus, Publilius

26.

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.

Cherie Carter-Scott

27.

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

Bible

28.

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

Webster, John

29.

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

Buddha

30.

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

Renard, Jules

31.

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

Mckay, David O.

32.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

33.

Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid at the back of reason, to come to the front when bidden. For once it begins to take control of the mind, it calls just what it does cruelly.

Curtis, George William

34.

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

35.

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.

36.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

37.

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

38.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

39.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

40.

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

Thurber, James

41.

Anyone can become angry -- that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way -- this is not easy.

Aristotle

42.

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

Shakespeare, William

43.

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

Fuller, Thomas

44.

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

45.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

46.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

47.

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

Lucan, F. L.

48.

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

Emily Dickinson

49.

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

50.

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