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

1.

By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned; By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned.

Pope, Alexander

2.

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

Greer, Germaine

3.

My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. [James 1:19-20]

Bible

4.

Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.

Fuller, Thomas

5.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

6.

Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.

Antonius, Marcus

7.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

8.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

9.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

10.

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

Greg Evans

11.

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

Floyd, Pink

12.

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

13.

Act nothing in a furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.

Fuller, Thomas

14.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

15.

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

Boyes, John F.

16.

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

17.

There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.

Dyer, Wayne

18.

Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

19.

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.

20.

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

21.

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

Sarnoff, David

22.

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

George, David Lloyd

23.

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

24.

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

25.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

26.

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

Quarles, Francis

27.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

28.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

29.

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.

30.

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

Bible

31.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

32.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

33.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

34.

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

35.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

36.

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

Emily Dickinson

37.

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

Maxim, Samurai

38.

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

Angelou, Maya

39.

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

Mizner, Wilson

40.

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

Renard, Jules

41.

I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they

White, Elwyn Brooks

42.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

43.

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

44.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

45.

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

Epictetus

46.

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

Freud, Sigmund

47.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

48.

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

Hugo, Victor

49.

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

Lucan, F. L.

50.

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