Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Horace

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

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

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Epictetus

Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

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

10.

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

Dyer, Wayne

11.

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.

12.

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

13.

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

Dyer, Wayne

14.

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

15.

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

Fuller, Thomas

16.

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

Floyd, Pink

17.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

19.

In time of danger it is proper to be alarmed until danger be near at hand; but when we perceive that danger is near, we should oppose it as if we were not afraid.

Hitopadesa

20.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

21.

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

22.

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.

23.

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

Shenstone, William

24.

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

Maxim, Samurai

25.

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.

26.

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

Bible

27.

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

Shakespeare, William

28.

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

Baldwin, James

29.

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

Dickinson, Emily

30.

All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.

Paley, Babe

31.

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

Quarles, Francis

32.

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

Mckay, David O.

33.

Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.

Beecher, Henry Ward

34.

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

Seneca

35.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

36.

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

37.

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.

38.

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

Hull, Bobby

39.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

40.

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

Ellis, Havelock

41.

When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

Jefferson, Thomas

42.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

43.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

44.

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

45.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

46.

The best answer to anger is silence.

47.

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

Bacon, Francis

48.

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.

49.

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

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

Shakespeare, William