Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Jefferson, Thomas

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Greg Evans

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

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

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

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

Laurence J. Peter

It is better to do thine own duty, however lacking in merit, than to do that of another, even though efficiently. It is better to die doing one's own duty, for to do the duty of another is fraught with danger.

Bhagavad Gita

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.

Buddha

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

Anger is one letter short of danger, Greatest remedy for anger is delay

10.

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

11.

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

Renard, Jules

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

15.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

16.

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

17.

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

Colton, Charles Caleb

18.

The best answer to anger is silence.

19.

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

Baldwin, James

20.

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

Maxim, Samurai

21.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

22.

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

Bible

23.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

24.

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

Plato

25.

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

Proverb

26.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

27.

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

28.

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

Mckay, David O.

29.

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

30.

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

Bible

31.

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

Proverb

32.

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

Hugo, Victor

33.

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

Bacon, Francis

34.

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

Epictetus

35.

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

36.

Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

37.

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

Pope, Alexander

38.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

39.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

40.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Hull, Bobby

44.

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

Horace

45.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

46.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

47.

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.

48.

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.

49.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

50.

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

Boyes, John F.