Motivational Quotes

Anger

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

- Russell, Bertrand

Best Quotes about Anger

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Wallenda, Karl

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

Emily Dickinson

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

Akhenaton

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

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

Colton, Charles Caleb

10.

Scornful men bring a city into a snare, but wise men turn away wrath. [Proverbs 29:8]

Bible

11.

The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances boldly to meet them head on. The weak man grows agitated. But the superior man stands up to fate, endures resolutely in his inner certainty If ignorant both

I Ching

12.

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

Mario Puzo

13.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

14.

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

15.

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.

16.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

17.

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

18.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

19.

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

Dyer, Wayne

20.

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

21.

If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.

Epictetus

22.

The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.

Long, Haniel

23.

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

Joan Lunden

24.

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

Laurence J. Peter

25.

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

Secker, Thomas

26.

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.

27.

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

28.

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

Shakespeare, William

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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.

32.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

33.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

34.

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

Renard, Jules

35.

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

Joubert, Joseph

36.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

37.

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

38.

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

Pope, Alexander

39.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

40.

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

41.

No one is as angry as the person who is wrong.

Proverb

42.

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

Lucan, F. L.

43.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

44.

Let not the sun go down upon your wrath. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

45.

The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong.

Mizner, Wilson

46.

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

48.

One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.

Syrus, Publilius

49.

Danger -- if you meet it promptly and without flinching -- you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Churchill, Winston

50.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.