Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

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

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself:'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.'When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.

Epictetus

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Malcolm X

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

10.

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.

11.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

12.

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

Baldwin, James

13.

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

Seneca

14.

A soft answer truth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger. [Proverbs 15:1]

Bible

15.

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

Churchill, Winston

16.

Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

Quarles, Francis

17.

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

18.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

19.

The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life.

Maxim, Samurai

20.

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

Bible

21.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

22.

The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.

George, David Lloyd

23.

Actually, the streets are quite safe today, it's the people on them who aren't.

24.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

25.

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

Dyer, Wayne

26.

The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them. [Proverbs 12:6]

Bible

27.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

28.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

29.

No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.

Brown, John Mason

30.

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

31.

Scornful men bring a city into a snare, but wise men turn away wrath. [Proverbs 29:8]

Bible

32.

Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.

Cervantes, Miguel De

33.

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

Epictetus

34.

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

35.

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

Lucan, F. L.

36.

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

37.

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

Fuller, Thomas

38.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

39.

The best answer to anger is silence.

40.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

41.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

42.

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

Bible

43.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

44.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

45.

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.

46.

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

Plato

47.

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.

48.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

49.

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

Churchill, Winston