Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

2.

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

Angelou, Maya

3.

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

Secker, Thomas

4.

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

Baldwin, James

5.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

6.

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

Freud, Sigmund

7.

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

Buddha

8.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

9.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

10.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

13.

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

14.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

15.

By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned; By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned.

Pope, Alexander

16.

Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.

Laurence J. Peter

17.

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

Akhenaton

18.

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.

19.

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

20.

Actually, the streets are quite safe today, it's the people on them who aren't.

21.

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

22.

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

Ruskin, John

23.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

24.

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.

25.

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

Fuller, Thomas

26.

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

Seneca

27.

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

George, David Lloyd

28.

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

Mckay, David O.

29.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

30.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

31.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

32.

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

33.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

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

Thurber, James

35.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

36.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

Bierce, Ambrose

37.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

38.

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

39.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

40.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

41.

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

Sarnoff, David

42.

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

Epictetus

43.

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

44.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

45.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

46.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

47.

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