Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Lucan, F. L.

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

Bible

No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.

Brown, John Mason

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.

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

Bible

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

10.

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.

11.

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

12.

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

Fuller, Thomas

13.

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

14.

Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much; such men are dangerous. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

15.

Anger makes dull men witty -- but it keeps them poor.

Bacon, Francis

16.

Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.

Babylonian Talmud

17.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

18.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

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

Hugo, Victor

20.

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.

Colton, Charles Caleb

21.

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

Boyes, John F.

22.

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

Bible

23.

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

24.

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

25.

The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong.

Mizner, Wilson

26.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

27.

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.

28.

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

Churchill, Winston

29.

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

Dyer, Wayne

30.

The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

31.

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

32.

Stay out of the road, if you want to grow old.

Floyd, Pink

33.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

34.

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

35.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

36.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

37.

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Akhenaton

39.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

Bierce, Ambrose

40.

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

Renard, Jules

41.

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

42.

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

Ellis, Havelock

43.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

44.

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

45.

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

Proverb

46.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

47.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

48.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

49.

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

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

Maxim, Samurai