Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

Horace

2.

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

Dyer, Wayne

3.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

4.

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

5.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

6.

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

Bacon, Francis

7.

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

Proverb

8.

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

9.

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

Bible

10.

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

11.

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

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

13.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

14.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

15.

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

16.

In time of danger it is proper to be alarmed until danger be near at hand; but when we perceive that danger is near, we should oppose it as if we were not afraid.

Hitopadesa

17.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

18.

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

Edwards, Tryon

19.

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

Plato

20.

Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south.

Shakespeare, William

21.

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

22.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

23.

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

George, David Lloyd

24.

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

25.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

26.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

27.

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

28.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

29.

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

Fuller, Thomas

30.

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

Buddha

31.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

32.

Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.

Greg Evans

33.

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

34.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

35.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

36.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

37.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

38.

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

39.

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

Thurber, James

40.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

41.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

42.

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

Hugo, Victor

43.

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

Seneca

44.

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

Churchill, Winston

45.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

46.

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

Mckay, David O.

47.

Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.

Buddha

48.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

49.

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

Churchill, Winston

50.

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

Shakespeare, William