Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Horace

Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much; such men are dangerous. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

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.

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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Proverb

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Bible

13.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Quarles, Francis

14.

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

Edwards, Tryon

15.

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.

16.

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

Angelis, Barbara De

17.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

18.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

19.

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

20.

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

Bible

21.

Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, everyone should be serene, slow-pulsed and calm.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

22.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

23.

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

24.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

25.

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

26.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

27.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

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

Shakespeare, William

29.

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

30.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

31.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

32.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

33.

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

34.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

35.

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.

36.

Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

37.

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

38.

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

Bacon, Francis

39.

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.

40.

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

Renard, Jules

41.

Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.

Greer, Germaine

42.

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

Laurence J. Peter

43.

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

44.

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

Churchill, Winston

45.

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

46.

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

47.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

48.

It is better to do thine own duty, however lacking in merit, than to do that of another, even though efficiently. It is better to die doing one's own duty, for to do the duty of another is fraught with danger.

Bhagavad Gita

49.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

50.

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

Dickinson, Emily