Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Best Quotes about Anger

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

Ellis, Havelock

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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.

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

Sarnoff, David

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

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

Buddha

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

Colton, Charles Caleb

It is better to do thine own duty, however lacking in merit, than to do that of another, even though efficiently. It is better to die doing one's own duty, for to do the duty of another is fraught with danger.

Bhagavad Gita

10.

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

Proverb

11.

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

Freud, Sigmund

12.

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

13.

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

Mario Puzo

14.

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

15.

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

Plato

16.

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

Edwards, Tryon

17.

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

18.

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

Aristotle

19.

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

20.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

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

Maxim, Samurai

22.

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

Baldwin, James

23.

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

24.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

25.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Greer, Germaine

29.

Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

30.

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

Joubert, Joseph

31.

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

Angelis, Barbara De

32.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

33.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

34.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

35.

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

36.

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

Thurber, James

37.

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

38.

To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.

Watts, Alan W.

39.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

40.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

41.

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

42.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

43.

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

44.

The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.

Ruskin, John

45.

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

George, David Lloyd

46.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

47.

He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.

Proverb

48.

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

49.

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

Mckay, David O.

50.

The best answer to anger is silence.