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

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

Baldwin, James

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

Boyes, John F.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned; By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned.

Pope, Alexander

Anyone can become angry -- that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way -- this is not easy.

Aristotle

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

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

Bible

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

Seneca

10.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

11.

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.

12.

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

George, David Lloyd

13.

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.

14.

The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.

Long, Haniel

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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

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Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.

Tupper, Martin

17.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

18.

Doomed are the hotheads! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, I'm sorry.

Schuller, Robert H.

19.

I used to store my anger and it affected my play. Now I get it out. I'm never rude to my playing partner. I'm very focused on the ball. Then it's over.

Alfredsson, Helen

20.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

Joubert, Joseph

21.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

22.

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.

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

Proverb

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The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances boldly to meet them head on. The weak man grows agitated. But the superior man stands up to fate, endures resolutely in his inner certainty If ignorant both

I Ching

25.

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

Dyer, Wayne

26.

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

27.

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

28.

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.

Colton, Charles Caleb

29.

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

Wallenda, Karl

30.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

31.

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

32.

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

33.

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

Quincey, Thomas De

34.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

35.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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

37.

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

38.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

39.

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

Fuller, Thomas

40.

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

Laurence J. Peter

41.

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

Dickinson, Emily

42.

When you meet up with a disagreeable person, never allow yourself to be upset. Say to yourself,if a dowdy like that can stand himself all his life, surely I can stand him for a few minutes.

43.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

44.

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

46.

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

47.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

48.

Stay out of the road, if you want to grow old.

Floyd, Pink

49.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

50.

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

Aristotle