Motivational Quotes

Anger

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out -- because that's what's inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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.

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

Proverb

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

No one is as angry as the person who is wrong.

Proverb

10.

The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.

Lucan, F. L.

11.

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

Bible

12.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

13.

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

14.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

15.

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

Secker, Thomas

16.

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

17.

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

Bible

18.

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.

19.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

20.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

21.

Scornful men bring a city into a snare, but wise men turn away wrath. [Proverbs 29:8]

Bible

22.

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

Bible

23.

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.

24.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

25.

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

Seneca

26.

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

George, David Lloyd

27.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

28.

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

Buddha

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Mario Puzo

37.

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

Shaw, George Bernard

38.

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.

39.

I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they

White, Elwyn Brooks

40.

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

41.

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

Renard, Jules

42.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

43.

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

Freud, Sigmund

44.

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

Proverb

45.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

46.

Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

Quarles, Francis

47.

No one can make us angry. People can say and do things to us but it is still up to us as individuals to do what we want with our emotions in response to those things.

48.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

49.

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

50.

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

Boyes, John F.