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

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

Horace

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

Maxim, Samurai

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.

Riley, James Whitcomb

10.

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

Akhenaton

11.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

12.

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

Mario Puzo

13.

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

Bible

14.

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

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.

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

George, David Lloyd

17.

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

Quarles, Francis

18.

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

Dyer, Wayne

19.

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

Mizner, Wilson

20.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

21.

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

Mckay, David O.

22.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

23.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

24.

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

25.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Greg Evans

29.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

30.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

Boyes, John F.

32.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

33.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

34.

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

35.

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

Proverb, Malabar

36.

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

Lucan, F. L.

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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.

40.

A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied with small gains, which will come by creative adaptations.

I Ching

41.

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

Gracian, Baltasar

42.

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

43.

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

Bible

44.

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

45.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

46.

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

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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.

48.

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

49.

The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Epictetus