Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

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

Churchill, Winston

2.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

3.

Act nothing in a furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.

Fuller, Thomas

4.

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

Edwards, Tryon

5.

Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south.

Shakespeare, William

6.

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

Greg Evans

7.

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

8.

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

Laurence J. Peter

9.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

10.

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

Dickinson, Emily

11.

We are confronted by a first danger, the destructiveness of applied atomic energy. And then we are confronted by a second danger, that we do not enough appreciate the first danger.

Swing, Raymond G.

12.

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

13.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

14.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

15.

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

Proverb

16.

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

Plato

17.

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

Bible

18.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

19.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

20.

The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence.

Beecher, Henry Ward

21.

Stay out of the road, if you want to grow old.

Floyd, Pink

22.

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

23.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

24.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

25.

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

26.

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

Emily Dickinson

27.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

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

29.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

30.

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

31.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

32.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

33.

One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.

Syrus, Publilius

34.

Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.

Tupper, Martin

35.

There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.

Dyer, Wayne

36.

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.

37.

Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.

Mckay, David O.

38.

I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.

Maxine Waters

39.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

40.

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

Bible

41.

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

42.

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

43.

When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other.

Gaulle, Charles De

44.

Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.

Hull, Bobby

45.

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

Baldwin, James

46.

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