Motivational Quotes

Anger

Anyone can become angry -- that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way -- this is not easy.

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Halifax, Edward F.

I used to store my anger and it affected my play. Now I get it out. I'm never rude to my playing partner. I'm very focused on the ball. Then it's over.

Alfredsson, Helen

I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they

White, Elwyn Brooks

Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.

Buddha

Nothing is so exhilarating in life as to be shot at with no result.

Churchill, Winston

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south.

Shakespeare, William

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

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

10.

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

Thurber, James

11.

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

12.

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

Horace

13.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

14.

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

Churchill, Winston

15.

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

Proverb

16.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

17.

We are confronted by a first danger, the destructiveness of applied atomic energy. And then we are confronted by a second danger, that we do not enough appreciate the first danger.

Swing, Raymond G.

18.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

19.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

20.

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

Baldwin, James

21.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

22.

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

Mckay, David O.

23.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

24.

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

Lucan, F. L.

25.

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

Hugo, Victor

26.

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

Proverb

27.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

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

Bible

30.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

31.

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

Edwards, Tryon

32.

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

Shakespeare, William

33.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

34.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

35.

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

36.

Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

Proverb, Malabar

37.

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

Gracian, Baltasar

38.

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

39.

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.

40.

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

41.

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

Pope, Alexander

42.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

43.

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

Joubert, Joseph

44.

Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, everyone should be serene, slow-pulsed and calm.