Motivational Quotes

Anger

Depression is rage spread thin.

- Tillich, Paul

Best Quotes about Anger

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

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.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out -- because that's what's inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside.

Dyer, Wayne

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

10.

The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence.

Beecher, Henry Ward

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

14.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

15.

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

Secker, Thomas

16.

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

Bible

17.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

18.

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

Greg Evans

19.

When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

Jefferson, Thomas

20.

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

Fuller, Thomas

21.

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

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

23.

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

Thurber, James

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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.

27.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

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

Shakespeare, William

29.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

30.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

31.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

32.

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

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.

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

35.

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

Seneca

36.

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

37.

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

Mckay, David O.

38.

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

Bible

39.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

40.

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

Angelou, Maya

41.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

42.

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

Bible

43.

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

44.

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

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.

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

Greer, Germaine

47.

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

Shakespeare, William

48.

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

49.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

50.

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