Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

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.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

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

Baldwin, James

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

Bible

Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.

Tupper, Martin

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

Boyes, John F.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

10.

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

Mario Puzo

11.

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

Akhenaton

12.

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

13.

All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.

Paley, Babe

14.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

15.

Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.

Shakespeare, William

16.

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

17.

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

Lucan, F. L.

18.

Anger is one letter short of danger, Greatest remedy for anger is delay

19.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

20.

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

Seneca

21.

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

Sarnoff, David

22.

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

23.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

24.

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

Edwards, Tryon

25.

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

Dyer, Wayne

26.

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.

27.

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

28.

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

Pope, Alexander

29.

It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.

Riley, James Whitcomb

30.

The broad general rule is that a man is about as big as the things that make him angry.

31.

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

Bible

32.

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

Mizner, Wilson

33.

Don't play for safety -- it's the most dangerous thing in the world.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

34.

Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.

Hull, Bobby

35.

The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.

Long, Haniel

36.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

37.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Angelou, Maya

38.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

39.

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

Freud, Sigmund

40.

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

41.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

42.

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

43.

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

Fuller, Thomas

44.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

45.

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.

46.

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

47.

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

Hugo, Victor

48.

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

Joubert, Joseph

49.

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

Renard, Jules

50.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.