Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Thurber, James

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

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

2.

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

Fuller, Thomas

3.

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

Greer, Germaine

4.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

5.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

6.

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

Akhenaton

7.

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

Mizner, Wilson

8.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

9.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

10.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

11.

Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.

Wallenda, Karl

12.

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

Boyes, John F.

13.

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

George, David Lloyd

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Fuller, Thomas

17.

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

18.

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

Pope, Alexander

19.

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

Dyer, Wayne

20.

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

Thurber, James

21.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

22.

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

23.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

24.

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

25.

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

Secker, Thomas

26.

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

Renard, Jules

27.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

28.

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

29.

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

Aurelius, Marcus

30.

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

31.

When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other.

Gaulle, Charles De

32.

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

33.

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

34.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

35.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

36.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

37.

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.

38.

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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.

42.

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

Dickinson, Emily

43.

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

44.

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

Maxim, Samurai

45.

No person is important enough to make me angry.