Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

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

The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances boldly to meet them head on. The weak man grows agitated. But the superior man stands up to fate, endures resolutely in his inner certainty If ignorant both

I Ching

Whenever you get red in the face, whenever you raise your voice, whenever you get hot under the collar or angry, rebellious or negative in spirit, then know that the spirit of God is leaving you and the spirit of Satan is beginning to take over.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Proverb, Malabar

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

Ruskin, John

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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.

10.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

11.

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.

12.

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

Ellis, Havelock

13.

The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression. [Proverbs 19:11]

Bible

14.

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

Akhenaton

15.

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

16.

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

Plato

17.

Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

18.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

19.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

20.

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

21.

When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other.

Gaulle, Charles De

22.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

23.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

24.

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

Bible

25.

Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

26.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

27.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

28.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

29.

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

Aristotle

30.

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

Russell, Bertrand

31.

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

Colton, Charles Caleb

32.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

33.

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

34.

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

Joubert, Joseph

35.

The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence.

Beecher, Henry Ward

36.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

37.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

38.

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

39.

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

Mckay, David O.

40.

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

Quincey, Thomas De

41.

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.

42.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

43.

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

Hull, Bobby

44.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

45.

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

Edwards, Tryon

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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