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 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

Nothing is so exhilarating in life as to be shot at with no result.

Churchill, Winston

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

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

It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.

Riley, James Whitcomb

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

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Plato

10.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

11.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

12.

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

13.

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

Dyer, Wayne

14.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

15.

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

Shenstone, William

16.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

17.

Anyone can become angry -- that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way -- this is not easy.

Aristotle

18.

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

Quincey, Thomas De

19.

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

Ruskin, John

20.

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

Aurelius, Marcus

21.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

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

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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

24.

A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied with small gains, which will come by creative adaptations.

I Ching

25.

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

Shakespeare, William

26.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

27.

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

28.

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

Proverb, Malabar

29.

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

Greer, Germaine

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Pope, Alexander

34.

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

Horace

35.

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

Bible

36.

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

Sarnoff, David

37.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

38.

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

Proverb

39.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

40.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

41.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

42.

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

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

Hugo, Victor

44.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

45.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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