Motivational Quotes

Anger

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Epictetus

To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.

Edwards, Tryon

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

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

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

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Bible

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.

10.

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

Churchill, Winston

11.

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

Seneca

12.

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

13.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

14.

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

Ruskin, John

15.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

16.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.

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

Freud, Sigmund

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Bible

21.

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.

22.

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.

23.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

24.

Do not suppress it-that would hurt you inside. Do not express it-this would not only hurt you inside, it would cause ripples in your surroundings. What you do is transform it.

Pilgrim, Peace

25.

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

26.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

27.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

28.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

29.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

30.

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

Maxim, Samurai

31.

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

Laurence J. Peter

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.

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

Joubert, Joseph

34.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

35.

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

Buddha

36.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

37.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

38.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

39.

My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. [James 1:19-20]

Bible

40.

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

Baldwin, James

41.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

42.

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

43.

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

Secker, Thomas

44.

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

45.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

46.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.