Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Hugo, Victor

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

2.

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

3.

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

4.

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

Secker, Thomas

5.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

6.

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

7.

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

Thurber, James

8.

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

Maxim, Samurai

9.

Don't play for safety -- it's the most dangerous thing in the world.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

10.

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

Mario Puzo

11.

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

Shakespeare, William

12.

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

Epictetus

13.

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

Mckay, David O.

14.

Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

Quarles, Francis

15.

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

Bacon, Francis

16.

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

Russell, Bertrand

17.

Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.

Greg Evans

18.

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

19.

The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.

Freud, Sigmund

20.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

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.

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

Plato

23.

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

Bible

24.

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

Bible

25.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

26.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

27.

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

28.

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

Shaw, George Bernard

29.

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

Lucan, F. L.

30.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

31.

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

32.

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

Proverb

33.

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

Shakespeare, William

34.

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

Seneca

35.

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.

36.

Act nothing in a furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.

Fuller, Thomas

37.

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

Proverb

38.

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

Proverb, Malabar

39.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

40.

Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.

Hull, Bobby

41.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

42.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

43.

Do not suppress it-that would hurt you inside. Do not express it-this would not only hurt you inside, it would cause ripples in your surroundings. What you do is transform it.

Pilgrim, Peace

44.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

45.

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

Renard, Jules

46.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

47.

The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong.