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

1.

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

2.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

3.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

4.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

5.

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

Fuller, Thomas

6.

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

Bacon, Francis

7.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

8.

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

9.

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

Emily Dickinson

10.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

11.

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.

12.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

13.

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

14.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

15.

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

16.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

17.

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

18.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

19.

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

Mizner, Wilson

20.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

21.

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

Bible

22.

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

23.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

Carlyle, Thomas

24.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

25.

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

Mckay, David O.

26.

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

Proverb

27.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

28.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

29.

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

30.

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

31.

There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.

Francis De Sales, St.

32.

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

Proverb

33.

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

Churchill, Winston

34.

Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.

Wallenda, Karl

35.

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

36.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

37.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

38.

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

Akhenaton

39.

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

40.

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

Pope, Alexander

41.

The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.

Ruskin, John

42.

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.

43.

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

44.

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

Ellis, Havelock

45.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

46.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

47.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.