Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

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

Angelou, Maya

2.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

3.

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

4.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

5.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

6.

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

Bible

7.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

8.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

9.

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

Fuller, Thomas

10.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

11.

There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.

Francis De Sales, St.

12.

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.

13.

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

Shakespeare, William

14.

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.

15.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

16.

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

Harris, Sidney J.

17.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

18.

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

19.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

20.

The best answer to anger is silence.

21.

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

22.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

23.

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

Churchill, Winston

24.

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

25.

Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

26.

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

Bacon, Francis

27.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

28.

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

Russell, Bertrand

29.

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

Sarnoff, David

30.

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

Quarles, Francis

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Proverb, Malabar

34.

Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.

Laurence J. Peter

35.

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

Maxim, Samurai

36.

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

37.

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

Webster, John

38.

We are confronted by a first danger, the destructiveness of applied atomic energy. And then we are confronted by a second danger, that we do not enough appreciate the first danger.

Swing, Raymond G.

39.

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

40.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

41.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

42.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

43.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

44.

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

Boyes, John F.

45.

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

46.

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

Mizner, Wilson

47.

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

48.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

49.

Danger -- if you meet it promptly and without flinching -- you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Churchill, Winston

50.

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