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.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

2.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

3.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

4.

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

Hugo, Victor

5.

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

Sarnoff, David

6.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

7.

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

Angelou, Maya

8.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

9.

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

10.

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.

11.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

12.

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.

13.

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

Dyer, Wayne

14.

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

Mario Puzo

15.

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

16.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

17.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

18.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

19.

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

Laurence J. Peter

20.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Proverb

24.

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

25.

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

Thurber, James

26.

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

Quarles, Francis

27.

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

28.

Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

Seneca

29.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

30.

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

Bible

31.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

32.

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

Shakespeare, William

33.

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.

34.

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

35.

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

Joan Lunden

36.

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

Shakespeare, William

37.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

Joubert, Joseph

38.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

39.

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

Maxim, Samurai

40.

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

Churchill, Winston

41.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

42.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

43.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

44.

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

Mckay, David O.

45.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

46.

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

47.

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

Epictetus

48.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

49.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

50.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.