Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Joubert, Joseph

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

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.

2.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

3.

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

Angelou, Maya

4.

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

5.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

6.

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.

7.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

8.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

9.

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

Baldwin, James

10.

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.

11.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

12.

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

Hugo, Victor

13.

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

Shakespeare, William

14.

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

Bible

15.

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

Akhenaton

16.

I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

Colby, Frank Moore

17.

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

18.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

19.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

20.

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

Greg Evans

21.

I used to store my anger and it affected my play. Now I get it out. I'm never rude to my playing partner. I'm very focused on the ball. Then it's over.

Alfredsson, Helen

22.

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

Bacon, Francis

23.

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

Thurber, James

24.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

25.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

26.

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

27.

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

Quarles, Francis

28.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

29.

Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.

Cervantes, Miguel De

30.

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

Plato

31.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

32.

The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.

Lucan, F. L.

33.

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

Angelis, Barbara De

34.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

35.

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

36.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

37.

The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.

Long, Haniel

38.

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

39.

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

Joubert, Joseph

40.

All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.

Paley, Babe

41.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

42.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

43.

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

Wallenda, Karl

44.

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