Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

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

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

Greer, Germaine

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

Danger -- if you meet it promptly and without flinching -- you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Churchill, Winston

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Secker, Thomas

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Proverb

10.

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

11.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

12.

No one is as angry as the person who is wrong.

Proverb

13.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

14.

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

Joubert, Joseph

15.

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

Maxim, Samurai

16.

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

Freud, Sigmund

17.

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

Bible

18.

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

Mckay, David O.

19.

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

Quarles, Francis

20.

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

Renard, Jules

21.

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

Boyes, John F.

22.

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

23.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

24.

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.

25.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

26.

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

Mario Puzo

27.

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

Dyer, Wayne

28.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

29.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

30.

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

Fuller, Thomas

31.

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

Lucan, F. L.

32.

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.

33.

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

34.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

35.

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

36.

Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

Quarles, Francis

37.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

38.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

39.

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

Pope, Alexander

40.

There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.

Francis De Sales, St.

41.

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

42.

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

Baldwin, James

43.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

44.

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

45.

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

46.

To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.

Edwards, Tryon

47.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

48.

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

49.

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

50.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel