Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Plato

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Angelis, Barbara De

The broad general rule is that a man is about as big as the things that make him angry.

Danger -- if you meet it promptly and without flinching -- you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Churchill, Winston

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Thurber, James

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.

Magnus, Saint Albertus

10.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

11.

It is better to do thine own duty, however lacking in merit, than to do that of another, even though efficiently. It is better to die doing one's own duty, for to do the duty of another is fraught with danger.

Bhagavad Gita

12.

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

Floyd, Pink

13.

Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.

Antonius, Marcus

14.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

15.

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

16.

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

Shakespeare, William

17.

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

18.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

19.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

20.

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

Freud, Sigmund

21.

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

22.

Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

Halifax, Edward F.

23.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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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.

25.

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

26.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

27.

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

28.

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.

29.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

30.

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

31.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

32.

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

33.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

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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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Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

Akhenaton

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

Sarnoff, David

37.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

38.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

39.

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

Mizner, Wilson

40.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

41.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

42.

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

43.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

44.

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

Bible

45.

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

Bible

46.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

47.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

48.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

49.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

50.

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