Motivational Quotes

Anger

The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.

- Freud, Sigmund

Best Quotes about Anger

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

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

Bible

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Bible

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Plato

Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

10.

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

Hull, Bobby

11.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

12.

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

Hugo, Victor

13.

The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.

George, David Lloyd

14.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

15.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

16.

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

17.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

19.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

20.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

21.

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

Greg Evans

22.

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

Bible

23.

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

Secker, Thomas

24.

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.

25.

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

26.

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

Pope, Alexander

27.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

28.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

29.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

30.

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

31.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

32.

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.

33.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

34.

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

35.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

36.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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

39.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

40.

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

41.

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.

Cherie Carter-Scott

42.

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

Dickinson, Emily

43.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

44.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

45.

The best answer to anger is silence.

46.

When you meet up with a disagreeable person, never allow yourself to be upset. Say to yourself,if a dowdy like that can stand himself all his life, surely I can stand him for a few minutes.

47.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

48.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

49.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Webster, John