Motivational Quotes

Anger

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

Halifax, Edward F.

2.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

3.

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.

4.

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

Shakespeare, William

5.

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

6.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

7.

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

Thurber, James

8.

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.

9.

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

Hull, Bobby

10.

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

Proverb

11.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Quarles, Francis

12.

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

Churchill, Winston

13.

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

Mckay, David O.

14.

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

Bible

15.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

16.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

17.

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

Epictetus

18.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

19.

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

Dyer, Wayne

20.

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

21.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

22.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

23.

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

Akhenaton

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

27.

He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

Plato

28.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

29.

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.

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Greer, Germaine

33.

The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.

George, David Lloyd

34.

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

35.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

36.

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

37.

No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.

Brown, John Mason

38.

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

39.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

40.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

41.

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

Emily Dickinson

42.

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.

43.

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

Angelou, Maya

44.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

45.

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

Syrus, Publilius

46.

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

Horace