Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Jefferson, Thomas

Best Quotes about Anger

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Bacon, Francis

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

Gracian, Baltasar

I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

Colby, Frank Moore

Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.

Antonius, Marcus

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

10.

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

Akhenaton

11.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

12.

Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

13.

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

Floyd, Pink

14.

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

Boyes, John F.

15.

There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.

Webster, John

16.

When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out -- because that's what's inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside.

Dyer, Wayne

17.

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.

18.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Emily Dickinson

22.

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

Horace

23.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

27.

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

Proverb

28.

If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wring, but the coals are.

Beecher, Henry Ward

29.

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

Dickinson, Emily

30.

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.

31.

A soft answer truth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger. [Proverbs 15:1]

Bible

32.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

33.

However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

Ellis, Havelock

34.

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

35.

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

Pope, Alexander

36.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

37.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

38.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

39.

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

Fuller, Thomas

40.

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

41.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

42.

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

43.

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

Syrus, Publilius

44.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

45.

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

Angelou, Maya

46.

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

Hugo, Victor

47.

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.

48.

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

49.

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

50.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius