Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Jefferson, Thomas

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

2.

I lose my temper, but it's all over in a minute, said the student. So is the hydrogen bomb, I replied. But think of the damage it produces!

Sweeting, George

3.

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

Proverb

4.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

5.

Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.

Wallenda, Karl

6.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

7.

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

8.

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

Floyd, Pink

9.

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

Shenstone, William

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Bible

13.

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

Freud, Sigmund

14.

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

Proverb, Malabar

15.

The best answer to anger is silence.

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

19.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

20.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

21.

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

Shakespeare, William

22.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

23.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

24.

Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

Halifax, Edward F.

25.

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

Hugo, Victor

26.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

27.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

28.

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

29.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

30.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

31.

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

32.

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

Laurence J. Peter

33.

Sticks and stones may break your bones when there's anger to impart. Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart. Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

34.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

35.

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

36.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

37.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

38.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

39.

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

Secker, Thomas

40.

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

Pope, Alexander

41.

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

Clarendon

42.

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

43.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

44.

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

Russell, Bertrand

45.

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