Motivational Quotes

Anger

Every man is his own chief enemy.

- Anacharsis

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Jefferson, Thomas

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

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.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.

Proverb

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

Bible

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

Bible

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Shaw, George Bernard

10.

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.

11.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

12.

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

Dickinson, Emily

13.

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

Dyer, Wayne

14.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

15.

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

Pope, Alexander

16.

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

Syrus, Publilius

17.

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

18.

It is better to do thine own duty, however lacking in merit, than to do that of another, even though efficiently. It is better to die doing one's own duty, for to do the duty of another is fraught with danger.

Bhagavad Gita

19.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

20.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

21.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

22.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

23.

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

Plato

24.

There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.

Dyer, Wayne

25.

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

Buddha

26.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

27.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

28.

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

George, David Lloyd

29.

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

Lucan, F. L.

30.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

31.

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

Joubert, Joseph

32.

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

Maxim, Samurai

33.

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

34.

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

Boyes, John F.

35.

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

36.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

37.

Let not the sun go down upon your wrath. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

38.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

39.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

40.

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

Bible

41.

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

Epictetus

42.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

43.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

44.

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

45.

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

46.

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

Shenstone, William

47.

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

Edwards, Tryon

48.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

49.

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