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.

Don't play for safety -- it's the most dangerous thing in the world.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

2.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

3.

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

Pope, Alexander

4.

The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

5.

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

Churchill, Winston

6.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

7.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

8.

Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. [Ecclesiastes 7:9]

Bible

9.

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

10.

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

Freud, Sigmund

11.

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

Webster, John

12.

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

Plato

13.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

14.

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

15.

Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

Quarles, Francis

16.

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

Secker, Thomas

17.

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

Hugo, Victor

18.

No one can make us angry. People can say and do things to us but it is still up to us as individuals to do what we want with our emotions in response to those things.

19.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

20.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

21.

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

22.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

23.

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

24.

The best answer to anger is silence.

25.

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

Seneca

26.

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

Proverb

27.

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

Bible

28.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

29.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

30.

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

Shakespeare, William

31.

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

Sarnoff, David

32.

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

33.

All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.

Paley, Babe

34.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

35.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

36.

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

37.

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

Greer, Germaine

38.

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

Fuller, Thomas

39.

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

Greg Evans

40.

Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

41.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

42.

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

Lucan, F. L.

43.

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

44.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

45.

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

Shenstone, William

46.

Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south.

Shakespeare, William

47.

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

48.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

49.

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

50.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace