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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Landor, Walter Savage

When you meet up with a disagreeable person, never allow yourself to be upset. Say to yourself,if a dowdy like that can stand himself all his life, surely I can stand him for a few minutes.

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

Mckay, David O.

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

Clarendon

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

10.

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

11.

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.

12.

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

Floyd, Pink

13.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Quarles, Francis

14.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

15.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

16.

We are confronted by a first danger, the destructiveness of applied atomic energy. And then we are confronted by a second danger, that we do not enough appreciate the first danger.

Swing, Raymond G.

17.

I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.

Maxine Waters

18.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

19.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

Joubert, Joseph

20.

Actually, the streets are quite safe today, it's the people on them who aren't.

21.

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

Maxim, Samurai

22.

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

23.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

24.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

25.

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

Bible

26.

To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.

Edwards, Tryon

27.

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

Seneca

28.

Whenever you get red in the face, whenever you raise your voice, whenever you get hot under the collar or angry, rebellious or negative in spirit, then know that the spirit of God is leaving you and the spirit of Satan is beginning to take over.

29.

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

Fuller, Thomas

30.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

31.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

32.

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

33.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

34.

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.

35.

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

Shaw, George Bernard

36.

Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.

Mario Puzo

37.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

38.

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

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

Sarnoff, David

40.

Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.

Henry, M.

41.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

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