Motivational Quotes

Anger

Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

- Halifax, Edward F.

Best Quotes about Anger

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

Aristotle

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Francis De Sales, St.

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

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.

Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Baldwin, James

10.

Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid at the back of reason, to come to the front when bidden. For once it begins to take control of the mind, it calls just what it does cruelly.

Curtis, George William

11.

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

Fuller, Thomas

12.

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.

13.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

14.

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

15.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

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.

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

18.

I lose my temper, but it's all over in a minute, said the student. So is the hydrogen bomb, I replied. But think of the damage it produces!

Sweeting, George

19.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

20.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

21.

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.

22.

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

Buddha

23.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

24.

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.

25.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

26.

The best answer to anger is silence.

27.

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

Renard, Jules

28.

There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.

Webster, John

29.

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

Pope, Alexander

30.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

31.

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

Seneca

32.

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

Akhenaton

33.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

34.

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

Fuller, Thomas

35.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

36.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

37.

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

38.

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.

39.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

40.

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

Sarnoff, David

41.

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

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.

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

Hugo, Victor

44.

I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

Barton, Clara

45.

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

46.

Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

Halifax, Edward F.

47.

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

48.

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

Greer, Germaine

49.

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

Dickinson, Emily

50.

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

Shenstone, William