Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Renard, Jules

Best Quotes about Anger

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

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

Sarnoff, David

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

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

Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.

Shakespeare, William

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

There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.

Dyer, Wayne

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

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

Buddha

10.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

11.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

12.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

13.

A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied with small gains, which will come by creative adaptations.

I Ching

14.

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

15.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

16.

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

Hugo, Victor

17.

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

Joubert, Joseph

18.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

19.

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

Bible

20.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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.

Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

23.

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

24.

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

Akhenaton

25.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

26.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

27.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

28.

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

29.

Whenever you get red in the face, whenever you raise your voice, whenever you get hot under the collar or angry, rebellious or negative in spirit, then know that the spirit of God is leaving you and the spirit of Satan is beginning to take over.

30.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

31.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

32.

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

33.

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

Aurelius, Marcus

34.

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

Angelou, Maya

35.

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

36.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

37.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

38.

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

Webster, John

39.

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

Shenstone, William

40.

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

41.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

42.

Doomed are the hotheads! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, I'm sorry.

Schuller, Robert H.

43.

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.

Fuller, Thomas

44.

The best answer to anger is silence.

45.

In time of danger it is proper to be alarmed until danger be near at hand; but when we perceive that danger is near, we should oppose it as if we were not afraid.

Hitopadesa

46.

Sticks and stones may break your bones when there's anger to impart. Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart. Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

47.

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

48.

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

49.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

50.

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

Proverb