Motivational Quotes

Anger

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

- Selden, John

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

Anger makes dull men witty -- but it keeps them poor.

Bacon, Francis

I lose my temper, but it's all over in a minute, said the student. So is the hydrogen bomb, I replied. But think of the damage it produces!

Sweeting, George

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

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

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

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Buddha

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

Mckay, David O.

10.

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.

11.

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.

12.

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

13.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

14.

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

Fuller, Thomas

15.

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

16.

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.

17.

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

Freud, Sigmund

18.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

19.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

20.

The best answer to anger is silence.

21.

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

Horace

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

25.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

26.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

27.

A soft answer truth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger. [Proverbs 15:1]

Bible

28.

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

Shakespeare, William

29.

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

Mizner, Wilson

30.

Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.

Greer, Germaine

31.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

32.

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

Laurence J. Peter

33.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

34.

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

35.

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

Baldwin, James

36.

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

Lucan, F. L.

37.

I used to store my anger and it affected my play. Now I get it out. I'm never rude to my playing partner. I'm very focused on the ball. Then it's over.

Alfredsson, Helen

38.

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

39.

The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

Landor, Walter Savage

40.

Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

Proverb, Malabar

41.

Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

Seneca

42.

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

43.

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

Floyd, Pink

44.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

45.

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

Bible

46.

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

47.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

48.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

49.

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

50.

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