Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Dyer, Wayne

Best Quotes about Anger

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

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

Mario Puzo

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

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.

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

Scornful men bring a city into a snare, but wise men turn away wrath. [Proverbs 29:8]

Bible

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

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

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

10.

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

11.

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

Maxim, Samurai

12.

One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.

Syrus, Publilius

13.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

14.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

15.

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

Fuller, Thomas

16.

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

Bible

17.

When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out -- because that's what's inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside.

Dyer, Wayne

18.

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

19.

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

Angelou, Maya

20.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

21.

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

Seneca

22.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

23.

Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.

Hillard, G. S.

24.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

26.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

27.

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

28.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

29.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

30.

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

Epictetus

31.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

Carlyle, Thomas

32.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

33.

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

34.

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

Hugo, Victor

35.

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

36.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

37.

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

Lucan, F. L.

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Ellis, Havelock

41.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

42.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John