Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Thurber, James

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Bible

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

Let not the sun go down upon your wrath. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

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.

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

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

Proverb

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.

10.

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

11.

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

Shakespeare, William

12.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

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

Bible

14.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

15.

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

16.

Doomed are the hotheads! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, I'm sorry.

Schuller, Robert H.

17.

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

Renard, Jules

18.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

19.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

20.

Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.

Shakespeare, William

21.

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

Churchill, Winston

22.

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

Boyes, John F.

23.

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

24.

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.

25.

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

Secker, Thomas

26.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.

Buddha

27.

The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.

Long, Haniel

28.

No one is as angry as the person who is wrong.

Proverb

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

32.

Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

Halifax, Edward F.

33.

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

Freud, Sigmund

34.

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

35.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

36.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

37.

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.

38.

Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, everyone should be serene, slow-pulsed and calm.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

39.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

40.

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

Plato

41.

If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself:'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.'When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.

Epictetus

42.

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

Quincey, Thomas De

43.

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

Joubert, Joseph

44.

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

Buddha

45.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

46.

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

47.

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

Floyd, Pink

48.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

49.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

50.

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