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

1.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

2.

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

3.

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

Seneca

4.

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

Sarnoff, David

5.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

6.

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

7.

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

Mizner, Wilson

8.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Proverb

9.

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

Plato

10.

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

Maxim, Samurai

11.

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

12.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

13.

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

14.

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

Shakespeare, William

15.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

16.

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

Lucan, F. L.

17.

A wave of anger washed over me, anger against myself, at my age at the time, that stupid lyrically age, when a man is too great a riddle to himself to be interested in the riddles outside himself and when other people are mere walking mirrors in which he is amazed to find his own emotions, his own worth.

Kundera, Milan

18.

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

Fuller, Thomas

19.

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

Bible

20.

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.

21.

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

22.

The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.

Ruskin, John

23.

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

Proverb, Malabar

24.

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

Bible

25.

Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. [Ecclesiastes 7:9]

Bible

26.

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

27.

I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

Barton, Clara

28.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

29.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

30.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

31.

To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.

Edwards, Tryon

32.

Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

33.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

34.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

35.

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

Wallenda, Karl

36.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

37.

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

Webster, John

38.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

39.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

40.

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

41.

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

42.

The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances boldly to meet them head on. The weak man grows agitated. But the superior man stands up to fate, endures resolutely in his inner certainty If ignorant both

I Ching

43.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

44.

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

Mario Puzo

45.

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

Mckay, David O.

46.

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

Secker, Thomas

47.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

48.

If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself:'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.'When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.

Epictetus

49.

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

Floyd, Pink

50.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul