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

Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.

Shakespeare, William

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

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

The best answer to anger is silence.

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

Bible

Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

Akhenaton

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

10.

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

Pope, Alexander

11.

When you meet up with a disagreeable person, never allow yourself to be upset. Say to yourself,if a dowdy like that can stand himself all his life, surely I can stand him for a few minutes.

12.

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

Thurber, James

13.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

15.

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

Greer, Germaine

16.

Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much; such men are dangerous. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Epictetus

20.

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

Lucan, F. L.

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Plato

24.

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.

25.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

26.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

27.

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

Hugo, Victor

28.

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

Freud, Sigmund

29.

Anyone can become angry -- that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way -- this is not easy.

Aristotle

30.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

31.

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

32.

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

Boyes, John F.

33.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

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

35.

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

Mario Puzo

36.

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.

37.

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

Bible

38.

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

Dickinson, Emily

39.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

40.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

41.

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

42.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

43.

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

Bible

44.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Proverb

48.

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

49.

Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.

Fuller, Thomas

50.

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.