Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

2.

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

3.

The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.

Long, Haniel

4.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

5.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

6.

Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.

Greer, Germaine

7.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

8.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

9.

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

10.

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

11.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

12.

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

Mizner, Wilson

13.

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

Angelou, Maya

14.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

15.

As the whirlwind in its fury teareth up trees, and deformeth the face of nature, or as an earthquake in its convulsions overturneth whole cities; so the rage of an angry man throweth mischief around him.

Akhenaton

16.

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

Sarnoff, David

17.

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

Churchill, Winston

18.

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

Russell, Bertrand

19.

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

20.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

21.

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.

22.

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

23.

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

Renard, Jules

24.

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

Harris, Sidney J.

25.

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

Churchill, Winston

26.

I used to store my anger and it affected my play. Now I get it out. I'm never rude to my playing partner. I'm very focused on the ball. Then it's over.

Alfredsson, Helen

27.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

28.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

29.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

30.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

31.

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

Lucan, F. L.

32.

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

Proverb

33.

Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.

Henry Ward Beecher

34.

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

Emily Dickinson

35.

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

Pope, Alexander

36.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

37.

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

Maxim, Samurai

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

41.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

42.

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