Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

2.

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

Epictetus

3.

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

Fuller, Thomas

4.

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

5.

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

Churchill, Winston

6.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

7.

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

8.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

9.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

Carlyle, Thomas

10.

What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you.

Dyer, Wayne

11.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

12.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

13.

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

14.

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

Renard, Jules

15.

Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

Proverb, Malabar

16.

Actually, the streets are quite safe today, it's the people on them who aren't.

17.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Laurence J. Peter

21.

Anger makes dull men witty -- but it keeps them poor.

Bacon, Francis

22.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

23.

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

Mario Puzo

24.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

25.

A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied with small gains, which will come by creative adaptations.

I Ching

26.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

27.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Quarles, Francis

28.

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

29.

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

Baldwin, James

30.

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

Russell, Bertrand

31.

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

Bible

32.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

33.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

34.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

35.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

36.

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

Ruskin, John

37.

Let not the sun go down upon your wrath. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

38.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

39.

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

40.

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

Horace

41.

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

Floyd, Pink

42.

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

Sarnoff, David

43.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

44.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

45.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

46.

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

47.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

48.

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

49.

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

50.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos