Motivational Quotes

Anger

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

- Malcolm X

Best Quotes about Anger

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

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

Greer, Germaine

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

Mckay, David O.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

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

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

Mario Puzo

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

10.

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

11.

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

Baldwin, James

12.

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

Proverb

13.

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

Akhenaton

14.

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.

15.

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

16.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

17.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

18.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

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.

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

21.

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

Bible

22.

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

Shakespeare, William

23.

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

Bacon, Francis

24.

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

25.

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.

26.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

27.

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

Sarnoff, David

28.

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

29.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

30.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

31.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

32.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

33.

The best answer to anger is silence.

34.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

35.

If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.

Epictetus

36.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

37.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

38.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Malcolm X

39.

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

Bible

40.

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

Floyd, Pink

41.

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

Churchill, Winston

42.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

43.

Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.

Henry, M.

44.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

45.

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

46.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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

48.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

49.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Greg Evans