Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Mckay, David O.

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.

Brown, John Mason

2.

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

Floyd, Pink

3.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

4.

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

5.

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

Thurber, James

6.

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

Boyes, John F.

7.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

8.

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.

9.

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

13.

Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.

Fuller, Thomas

14.

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

Joubert, Joseph

15.

Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

16.

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

Plato

17.

The best answer to anger is silence.

18.

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

Quarles, Francis

19.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Bible

23.

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

24.

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

Shakespeare, William

25.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

26.

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

Freud, Sigmund

27.

Anger is one letter short of danger, Greatest remedy for anger is delay

28.

Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.

Halifax, Edward F.

29.

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

Baldwin, James

30.

The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

31.

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

Bible

32.

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.

33.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

34.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

35.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

36.

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

37.

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

Mario Puzo

38.

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

Bible

39.

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

Russell, Bertrand

40.

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