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

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

Churchill, Winston

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.

Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.

Fuller, Thomas

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

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

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

Harris, Sidney J.

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.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Renard, Jules

10.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

11.

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

Proverb

12.

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

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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.

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

17.

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

18.

I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

Barton, Clara

19.

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

Dyer, Wayne

20.

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

21.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

22.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

23.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

24.

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

Ruskin, John

25.

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

Thurber, James

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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

27.

Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.

Hillard, G. S.

28.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

29.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

30.

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.

31.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

32.

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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

34.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.

Buddha

35.

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

36.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

37.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.