Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Webster, John

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

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

Hull, Bobby

2.

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

3.

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

Proverb

4.

If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wring, but the coals are.

Beecher, Henry Ward

5.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

6.

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

Shakespeare, William

7.

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.

8.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

9.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

10.

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

Epictetus

11.

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

12.

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

Bible

13.

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

Bacon, Francis

14.

The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.

George, David Lloyd

15.

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

Plato

16.

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

Proverb

17.

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

18.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

19.

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

20.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

21.

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

22.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

23.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

24.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

25.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

26.

The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

Landor, Walter Savage

27.

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

28.

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.

29.

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

30.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

31.

Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.

Beecher, Henry Ward

32.

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

Angelou, Maya

33.

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

Freud, Sigmund

34.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

35.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

36.

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

Shenstone, William

37.

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

Buddha

38.

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

Renard, Jules

39.

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.

40.

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

Ruskin, John

41.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Wallenda, Karl

45.

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

46.

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.

47.

The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

48.

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

Greer, Germaine

49.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

50.

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

Emily Dickinson