Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Schuller, Robert H.

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Churchill, Winston

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

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

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

Bible

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

Maxim, Samurai

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

Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.

Baldwin, James

Stay out of the road, if you want to grow old.

Floyd, Pink

10.

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

Bible

11.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

12.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

13.

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

Akhenaton

14.

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

15.

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

Wallenda, Karl

16.

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

Fuller, Thomas

17.

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

Ruskin, John

18.

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

Bible

19.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

20.

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

Angelou, Maya

21.

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

22.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

23.

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

Shakespeare, William

24.

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

Laurence J. Peter

25.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

26.

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

Lucan, F. L.

27.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

28.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

29.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

30.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

31.

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

Russell, Bertrand

32.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

33.

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

34.

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

Shakespeare, William

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Bible

38.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Buddha

42.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

43.

The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

44.

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.

45.

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

Secker, Thomas

46.

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

Joubert, Joseph

47.

We are confronted by a first danger, the destructiveness of applied atomic energy. And then we are confronted by a second danger, that we do not enough appreciate the first danger.

Swing, Raymond G.

48.

Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

Quarles, Francis

49.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

50.

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

Mario Puzo