Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Quincey, Thomas De

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

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

2.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

3.

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.

4.

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

Fuller, Thomas

5.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

6.

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

Boyes, John F.

7.

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

8.

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

Renard, Jules

9.

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

10.

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

Mario Puzo

11.

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

Freud, Sigmund

12.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Malcolm X

13.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

14.

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

15.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

16.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

17.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

18.

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

Bible

19.

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.

20.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

21.

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

Maxim, Samurai

22.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

23.

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

24.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

28.

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

Seneca

29.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

30.

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

Mckay, David O.

31.

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

Secker, Thomas

32.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

33.

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

34.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

35.

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.

36.

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

Lucan, F. L.

37.

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.

38.

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

Proverb

39.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

40.

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

41.

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

Shaw, George Bernard

42.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

43.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

44.

Depression is rage spread thin.