Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. [James 1:19-20]

Bible

The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.

George, David Lloyd

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

Proverb

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Churchill, Winston

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

13.

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.

14.

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

Bible

15.

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

Angelou, Maya

16.

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

17.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

18.

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

19.

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

Aurelius, Marcus

20.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

21.

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

22.

Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

Proverb, Malabar

23.

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

Mario Puzo

24.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

25.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

26.

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

27.

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

Dyer, Wayne

28.

Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.

Henry Ward Beecher

29.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

30.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

31.

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

Joubert, Joseph

32.

We are confronted by a first danger, the destructiveness of applied atomic energy. And then we are confronted by a second danger, that we do not enough appreciate the first danger.

Swing, Raymond G.

33.

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

34.

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.

35.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

36.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

37.

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.

38.

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

Renard, Jules

39.

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

Aristotle

40.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

41.

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

Harris, Sidney J.

42.

The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

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

44.

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

45.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

46.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

47.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

48.

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