Motivational Quotes

Anger

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

- Harriet Lerner

Best Quotes about Anger

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Baldwin, James

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

Sarnoff, David

Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.

Babylonian Talmud

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

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

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

10.

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

11.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

12.

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

13.

Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

14.

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.

15.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

16.

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

Dyer, Wayne

17.

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

18.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

19.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

20.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

21.

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

Proverb, Malabar

22.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

23.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

24.

Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.

Tupper, Martin

25.

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

Mario Puzo

26.

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

27.

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

Bible

28.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

29.

He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.

Proverb

30.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

31.

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

32.

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

Dyer, Wayne

33.

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

Joubert, Joseph

34.

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

35.

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

36.

As the whirlwind in its fury teareth up trees, and deformeth the face of nature, or as an earthquake in its convulsions overturneth whole cities; so the rage of an angry man throweth mischief around him.

Akhenaton

37.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

38.

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

Syrus, Publilius

39.

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

40.

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

Russell, Bertrand

41.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

42.

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

Bible

43.

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

Horace

44.

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

Floyd, Pink

45.

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

Emily Dickinson

46.

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

47.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

48.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

49.

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.

50.

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

Akhenaton