Motivational Quotes

Anger

To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.

- Watts, Alan W.

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

2.

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

3.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

4.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

5.

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

Bible

6.

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

Wallenda, Karl

7.

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

Angelou, Maya

8.

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

Proverb

9.

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

10.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

11.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

12.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

13.

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

14.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

Carlyle, Thomas

15.

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

Churchill, Winston

16.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

17.

Anger makes dull men witty -- but it keeps them poor.

Bacon, Francis

18.

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

19.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

20.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Proverb

22.

However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

Ellis, Havelock

23.

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.

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

27.

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

28.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

29.

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

Proverb

30.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

31.

A soft answer truth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger. [Proverbs 15:1]

Bible

32.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

33.

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.

34.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

35.

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

Emily Dickinson

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Freud, Sigmund

39.

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

Shakespeare, William

40.

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

41.

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

Dyer, Wayne

42.

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

Greer, Germaine

43.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

44.

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

Hull, Bobby

45.

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

Buddha

46.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

47.

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

Bible

48.

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.

49.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

50.

I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

Barton, Clara