Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Henry Ward Beecher

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

2.

No one is as angry as the person who is wrong.

Proverb

3.

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

4.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

5.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

6.

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

7.

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

8.

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

Emily Dickinson

9.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

10.

He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

Plato

11.

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

Lucan, F. L.

12.

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

Proverb, Malabar

13.

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

Pope, Alexander

14.

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

15.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

16.

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

Shakespeare, William

17.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

18.

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

19.

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

20.

The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence.

Beecher, Henry Ward

21.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

22.

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

Fuller, Thomas

23.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

24.

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

Bacon, Francis

25.

It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and angry woman. [Proverbs 21:19]

Bible

26.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

27.

Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.

Shakespeare, William

28.

However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

Ellis, Havelock

29.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

30.

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

Syrus, Publilius

31.

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

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.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

34.

To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.

Watts, Alan W.

35.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

36.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

37.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

38.

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