Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Joubert, Joseph

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

2.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

3.

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

Bacon, Francis

4.

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

5.

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

Akhenaton

6.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

7.

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

8.

The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

Landor, Walter Savage

9.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

10.

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

Webster, John

11.

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

Fuller, Thomas

12.

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

Dyer, Wayne

13.

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

Secker, Thomas

14.

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

Mckay, David O.

15.

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

Edwards, Tryon

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.

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

Freud, Sigmund

18.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

19.

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

20.

The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.

George, David Lloyd

21.

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

Ellis, Havelock

22.

The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong.

Mizner, Wilson

23.

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

Shaw, George Bernard

24.

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

Proverb

25.

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

Shakespeare, William

26.

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

Laurence J. Peter

27.

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

28.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

29.

Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.

Greg Evans

30.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

31.

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

32.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

33.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

34.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

35.

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

36.

All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.

Paley, Babe

37.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

38.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

39.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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.

43.

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

Hugo, Victor

44.

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

Greer, Germaine

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.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

47.

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

Horace

48.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

49.

It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and angry woman. [Proverbs 21:19]