Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Ruskin, John

Best Quotes about Anger

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.

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

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

Bible

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

Ruskin, John

My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. [James 1:19-20]

Bible

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

Schuller, Robert H.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

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

Proverb

10.

I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they

White, Elwyn Brooks

11.

Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.

Henry, M.

12.

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

13.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

14.

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

15.

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

16.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

18.

Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.

Wallenda, Karl

19.

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

20.

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

Bible

21.

Nothing is so exhilarating in life as to be shot at with no result.

Churchill, Winston

22.

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

Fuller, Thomas

23.

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

24.

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

Shakespeare, William

25.

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

Epictetus

26.

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

Mckay, David O.

27.

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

28.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

29.

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

30.

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.

31.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

32.

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

33.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

34.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

35.

Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much; such men are dangerous. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

36.

Anger as soon as fed is dead- 'Tis starving makes it fat.

Emily Dickinson

37.

Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.

Hull, Bobby

38.

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.

39.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

40.

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

41.

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

42.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

43.

Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.

Hillard, G. S.

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

47.

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

48.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

49.

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.

50.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner