Motivational Quotes

Anger

I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they

- White, Elwyn Brooks

Best Quotes about Anger

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Hull, Bobby

Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

Proverb, Malabar

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

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

Greer, Germaine

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

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

10.

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.

11.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

12.

As the whirlwind in its fury teareth up trees, and deformeth the face of nature, or as an earthquake in its convulsions overturneth whole cities; so the rage of an angry man throweth mischief around him.

Akhenaton

13.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

14.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

15.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

16.

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

17.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

18.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

19.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

20.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

21.

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

Angelou, Maya

22.

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

Proverb

23.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

24.

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

Churchill, Winston

25.

There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.

Dyer, Wayne

26.

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

27.

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

28.

Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

Seneca

29.

The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression. [Proverbs 19:11]

Bible

30.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

31.

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

32.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

33.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

34.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

35.

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

Sarnoff, David

36.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

37.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

38.

The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances boldly to meet them head on. The weak man grows agitated. But the superior man stands up to fate, endures resolutely in his inner certainty If ignorant both

I Ching

39.

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

Greg Evans

40.

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

41.

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

Webster, John

42.

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

Fuller, Thomas

43.

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

Mizner, Wilson

44.

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

45.

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

Fuller, Thomas

46.

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

47.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

48.

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

Proverb

49.

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

Bible

50.

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