Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

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

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

Epictetus

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Joubert, Joseph

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Secker, Thomas

10.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

11.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

12.

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

13.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

14.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

15.

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

Ruskin, John

16.

Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

Halifax, Edward F.

17.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

18.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

19.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Angelou, Maya

20.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

21.

The broad general rule is that a man is about as big as the things that make him angry.

22.

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

Lucan, F. L.

23.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

24.

Don't play for safety -- it's the most dangerous thing in the world.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

25.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

26.

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

Churchill, Winston

27.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

28.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

29.

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

Boyes, John F.

30.

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

Dickinson, Emily

31.

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

Bible

32.

Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.

Antonius, Marcus

33.

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

Emily Dickinson

34.

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

Fuller, Thomas

35.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

36.

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.

37.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

38.

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

Greg Evans

39.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

40.

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

Bible

41.

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

42.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

43.

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

44.

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

Bible

45.

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

46.

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

Freud, Sigmund

47.

He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

Plato

48.

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

49.

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.

50.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian