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

The best answer to anger is silence.

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Baldwin, James

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

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

Bierce, Ambrose

However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

Ellis, Havelock

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

10.

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.

Fuller, Thomas

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Freud, Sigmund

14.

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

Dyer, Wayne

15.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

16.

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

Floyd, Pink

17.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

18.

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

19.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

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.

21.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

22.

I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

Colby, Frank Moore

23.

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

Bible

24.

Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.

Halifax, Edward F.

25.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

26.

The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression. [Proverbs 19:11]

Bible

27.

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

Sarnoff, David

28.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

29.

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

30.

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

Pope, Alexander

31.

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

Bible

32.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

33.

Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.

Mario Puzo

34.

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

Wallenda, Karl

35.

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

Maxim, Samurai

36.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

37.

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

38.

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

39.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

40.

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

Bible

41.

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

42.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

43.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

44.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

45.

I have seen a peaceful expression turn to anger as fast as a whip cracks, and so the look on the face might mean less than what it seems to be.

Erica Eisdorfer

46.

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

47.

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

Joan Lunden

48.

Anger is one letter short of danger, Greatest remedy for anger is delay

49.

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

50.

The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong.

Mizner, Wilson