Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Jefferson, Thomas

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

No one can make us angry. People can say and do things to us but it is still up to us as individuals to do what we want with our emotions in response to those things.

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

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Dickinson, Emily

10.

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

11.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

12.

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

Epictetus

13.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

14.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

15.

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

16.

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

Dyer, Wayne

17.

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

18.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

19.

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

Shakespeare, William

20.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

25.

He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.

Magnus, Saint Albertus

26.

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

27.

I used to store my anger and it affected my play. Now I get it out. I'm never rude to my playing partner. I'm very focused on the ball. Then it's over.

Alfredsson, Helen

28.

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

29.

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

Boyes, John F.

30.

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

Greer, Germaine

31.

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

Lucan, F. L.

32.

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

Syrus, Publilius

33.

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

Mario Puzo

34.

The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.

Ruskin, John

35.

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

Buddha

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Proverb, Malabar

39.

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

Renard, Jules

40.

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

Emily Dickinson

41.

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