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.

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

Plato

2.

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

Lucan, F. L.

3.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

4.

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

Baldwin, James

5.

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

6.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

7.

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

Dyer, Wayne

8.

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

9.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

10.

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

Shakespeare, William

11.

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

Buddha

12.

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

13.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

14.

Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

Akhenaton

15.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

16.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

17.

What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you.

Dyer, Wayne

18.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

19.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

20.

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

Floyd, Pink

21.

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

Renard, Jules

22.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

23.

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

Boyes, John F.

24.

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

Thurber, James

25.

The best answer to anger is silence.

26.

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

27.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Malcolm X

28.

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

Russell, Bertrand

29.

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

Wallenda, Karl

30.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

31.

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

Ruskin, John

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

35.

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

36.

Doomed are the hotheads! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, I'm sorry.

Schuller, Robert H.

37.

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

Mckay, David O.

38.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

39.

Danger -- if you meet it promptly and without flinching -- you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Churchill, Winston

40.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Angelou, Maya

41.

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.

Colton, Charles Caleb

42.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

Joubert, Joseph

43.

Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.

Henry, M.

44.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Quarles, Francis

45.

We are confronted by a first danger, the destructiveness of applied atomic energy. And then we are confronted by a second danger, that we do not enough appreciate the first danger.

Swing, Raymond G.

46.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

47.

To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.

Edwards, Tryon

48.

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

49.

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

Bible

50.

Let not the sun go down upon your wrath. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible