Motivational Quotes

Anger

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Anger

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

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

Joubert, Joseph

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

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

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

Angelou, Maya

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.

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

Secker, Thomas

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

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

Mario Puzo

10.

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

11.

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

Plato

12.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

16.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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.

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

Seneca

19.

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

Buddha

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Dyer, Wayne

23.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.

Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.

Greg Evans

25.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.

Buddha

26.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

27.

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

28.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

29.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

30.

It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and angry woman. [Proverbs 21:19]

Bible

31.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

32.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

33.

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

Sarnoff, David

34.

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

Edwards, Tryon

35.

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

Fuller, Thomas

36.

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

37.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

38.

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

Shakespeare, William

39.

As the whirlwind in its fury teareth up trees, and deformeth the face of nature, or as an earthquake in its convulsions overturneth whole cities; so the rage of an angry man throweth mischief around him.

Akhenaton

40.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

41.

Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, everyone should be serene, slow-pulsed and calm.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

42.

The best answer to anger is silence.

43.

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

Thurber, James

44.

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

45.

It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.

Riley, James Whitcomb

46.

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

Fuller, Thomas

47.

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

48.

He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.

Proverb

49.

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

50.

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

Bacon, Francis