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

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Bible

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Floyd, Pink

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

Fuller, Thomas

Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, everyone should be serene, slow-pulsed and calm.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

10.

The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

11.

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.

12.

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

13.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

14.

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

15.

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

Lucan, F. L.

16.

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

17.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

18.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

19.

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

20.

If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself:'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.'When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.

Epictetus

21.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

22.

I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

Colby, Frank Moore

23.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

24.

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

25.

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.

Colton, Charles Caleb

26.

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

27.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

28.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

29.

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.

30.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

31.

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

32.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

33.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

34.

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

35.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

36.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

37.

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

Renard, Jules

38.

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

Bible

39.

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

Epictetus

40.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

41.

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

Churchill, Winston

42.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

43.

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

Boyes, John F.

44.

He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.

Magnus, Saint Albertus

45.

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

Shenstone, William

46.

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

Mckay, David O.

47.

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

48.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

49.

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

50.

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

Syrus, Publilius