Motivational Quotes

Anger

Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.

- Buddha

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Sarnoff, David

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other.

Gaulle, Charles De

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Buddha

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

Secker, Thomas

10.

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

11.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

12.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

13.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

14.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

15.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

16.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

17.

Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.

Shakespeare, William

18.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Akhenaton

22.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

23.

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

24.

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

Hull, Bobby

25.

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

Bible

26.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

27.

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

Greer, Germaine

28.

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

Shenstone, William

29.

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

30.

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.

31.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

32.

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

33.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

34.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

35.

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

Ellis, Havelock

36.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

37.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

38.

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

Aurelius, Marcus

39.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

40.

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

Quarles, Francis

41.

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

42.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

43.

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

44.

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

Lucan, F. L.

45.

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

46.

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

47.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

48.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

49.

Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

50.

Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.