Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Proverb

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Renard, Jules

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

Horace

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Proverb

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

Thurber, James

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Buddha

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

Don't play for safety -- it's the most dangerous thing in the world.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

13.

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

Epictetus

14.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

15.

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

Baldwin, James

16.

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

17.

Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.

Henry Ward Beecher

18.

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

19.

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

Greer, Germaine

20.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

21.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

22.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

23.

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

24.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

25.

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

Shakespeare, William

26.

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

Bible

27.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

28.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

29.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

30.

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

31.

There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.

Webster, John

32.

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

33.

Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.

Greg Evans

34.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

35.

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

Joubert, Joseph

36.

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

37.

When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other.

Gaulle, Charles De

38.

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

Floyd, Pink

39.

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

40.

Anger is one letter short of danger, Greatest remedy for anger is delay

41.

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

Shakespeare, William

42.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

43.

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

44.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

45.

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

Syrus, Publilius

46.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

47.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

48.

The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

49.

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

Shenstone, William

50.

If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wring, but the coals are.

Beecher, Henry Ward