Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Dickinson, Emily

Best Quotes about Anger

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

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

Quincey, Thomas De

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

Mckay, David O.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Greer, Germaine

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

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

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

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

10.

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

11.

Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid at the back of reason, to come to the front when bidden. For once it begins to take control of the mind, it calls just what it does cruelly.

Curtis, George William

12.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

13.

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

Proverb

14.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

15.

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

Fuller, Thomas

16.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

17.

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

Emily Dickinson

18.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

19.

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

Joan Lunden

20.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

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

22.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

23.

By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned; By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned.

Pope, Alexander

24.

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

25.

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

Bible

26.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

27.

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

Greg Evans

28.

When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

Jefferson, Thomas

29.

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

Proverb

30.

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

31.

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

Baldwin, James

32.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

33.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

34.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

35.

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

Secker, Thomas

36.

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

37.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

38.

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

Bible

39.

Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. [Ecclesiastes 7:9]

Bible

40.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

41.

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

Joubert, Joseph

42.

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

43.

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

Bible

44.

The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them. [Proverbs 12:6]

Bible

45.

Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, everyone should be serene, slow-pulsed and calm.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

46.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

47.

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

Horace

48.

My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. [James 1:19-20]

Bible

49.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

50.

The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence.

Beecher, Henry Ward