Motivational Quotes

Anger

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.

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Best Quotes about Anger

1.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

2.

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

Thurber, James

3.

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

4.

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

5.

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

Fuller, Thomas

6.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

7.

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

Maxim, Samurai

8.

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

Churchill, Winston

9.

Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.

Tupper, Martin

10.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

11.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

12.

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

Proverb

13.

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

Wallenda, Karl

14.

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

Bible

15.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

16.

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

17.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

18.

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

Buddha

19.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

20.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

21.

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

Floyd, Pink

22.

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

Dyer, Wayne

23.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

24.

Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.

Baldwin, James

25.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

26.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

27.

Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.

Fuller, Thomas

28.

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

29.

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

Shenstone, William

30.

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.

31.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

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.

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

Akhenaton

34.

The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.

Ruskin, John

35.

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

Freud, Sigmund

36.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

37.

Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.

Hull, Bobby

38.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

39.

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

Dickinson, Emily

40.

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

41.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Plato

46.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

47.

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

Colton, Charles Caleb

48.

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