Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

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

2.

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

Mario Puzo

3.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

4.

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

Churchill, Winston

5.

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

Shenstone, William

6.

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.

7.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

8.

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

9.

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

10.

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

Freud, Sigmund

11.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

12.

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

Buddha

13.

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

Bible

14.

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

Baldwin, James

15.

If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wring, but the coals are.

Beecher, Henry Ward

16.

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.

17.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

18.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

19.

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

20.

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

Sarnoff, David

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.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

23.

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

Russell, Bertrand

24.

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

Epictetus

25.

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

Mizner, Wilson

26.

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

Laurence J. Peter

27.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

28.

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

Churchill, Winston

29.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

Proverb, Malabar

31.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

32.

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

33.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

34.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

35.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

36.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

37.

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

Proverb

38.

The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

39.

Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.

Hillard, G. S.

40.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

41.

The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.

Ruskin, John

42.

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

Pope, Alexander

43.

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

44.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

45.

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

Bible

46.

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

Thurber, James

47.

Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

Seneca

48.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

49.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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