Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Bierce, Ambrose

Best Quotes about Anger

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

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

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

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

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Greg Evans

10.

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

Bible

11.

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

Hull, Bobby

12.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

13.

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

14.

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.

15.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

16.

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

17.

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

Boyes, John F.

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Shakespeare, William

21.

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

Aurelius, Marcus

22.

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

Quarles, Francis

23.

The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.

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

25.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

26.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

27.

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

Russell, Bertrand

28.

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.

Cherie Carter-Scott

29.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

30.

Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.

Wallenda, Karl

31.

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

32.

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

Hugo, Victor

33.

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

34.

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.

35.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

36.

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

Laurence J. Peter

37.

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

Bible

38.

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.

39.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

40.

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

Seneca

41.

I lose my temper, but it's all over in a minute, said the student. So is the hydrogen bomb, I replied. But think of the damage it produces!

Sweeting, George

42.

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

Proverb