Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Jefferson, Thomas

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Emily Dickinson

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them. [Proverbs 12:6]

Bible

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

10.

No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.

Brown, John Mason

11.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

12.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

13.

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

14.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

15.

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

16.

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

Edwards, Tryon

17.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

18.

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

Secker, Thomas

19.

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

Greer, Germaine

20.

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.

21.

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

Quarles, Francis

22.

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

Bible

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.

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

25.

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

Dickinson, Emily

26.

Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.

Halifax, Edward F.

27.

When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other.

Gaulle, Charles De

28.

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

29.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

30.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

31.

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

32.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.

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

Plato

34.

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

35.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

36.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

37.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

38.

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

39.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

40.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

41.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

42.

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

Syrus, Publilius

43.

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

Colton, Charles Caleb

44.

In time of danger it is proper to be alarmed until danger be near at hand; but when we perceive that danger is near, we should oppose it as if we were not afraid.

Hitopadesa

45.

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

Fuller, Thomas

46.

The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression. [Proverbs 19:11]

Bible

47.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

48.

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