Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Shenstone, William

Best Quotes about Anger

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

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

Bible

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

Quarles, Francis

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Proverb

10.

I have seen a peaceful expression turn to anger as fast as a whip cracks, and so the look on the face might mean less than what it seems to be.

Erica Eisdorfer

11.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

12.

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

Hugo, Victor

13.

The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them. [Proverbs 12:6]

Bible

14.

All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.

Paley, Babe

15.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

16.

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

17.

To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.

Edwards, Tryon

18.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

23.

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

24.

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

Churchill, Winston

25.

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

Joubert, Joseph

26.

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

Hull, Bobby

27.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

28.

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

29.

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

Proverb, Malabar

30.

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

Bible

31.

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

George, David Lloyd

32.

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.

33.

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

Freud, Sigmund

34.

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.

35.

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

36.

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

37.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

38.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

39.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

40.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

41.

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

42.

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

Buddha

43.

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

44.

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

Bacon, Francis

45.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

46.

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

47.

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

Lucan, F. L.

48.

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.

49.

The broad general rule is that a man is about as big as the things that make him angry.

50.

Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.

Tupper, Martin