Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Joubert, Joseph

Best Quotes about Anger

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

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

Boyes, John F.

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

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

Thurber, James

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

I used to store my anger and it affected my play. Now I get it out. I'm never rude to my playing partner. I'm very focused on the ball. Then it's over.

Alfredsson, Helen

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

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

Syrus, Publilius

10.

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

11.

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

Sarnoff, David

12.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

13.

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.

14.

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

Bacon, Francis

15.

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

Churchill, Winston

16.

No one is as angry as the person who is wrong.

Proverb

17.

Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. [Ecclesiastes 7:9]

Bible

18.

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

19.

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.

20.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

21.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

22.

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

Angelou, Maya

23.

Don't play for safety -- it's the most dangerous thing in the world.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

24.

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

Dyer, Wayne

25.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

26.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

27.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

28.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

29.

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

Epictetus

30.

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

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

Floyd, Pink

32.

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

33.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

34.

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

35.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

36.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

37.

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

Edwards, Tryon

38.

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

Bible

39.

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

Plato

40.

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

Wallenda, Karl

41.

The broad general rule is that a man is about as big as the things that make him angry.

42.

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

43.

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

Bible

44.

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

45.

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

46.

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.

Fuller, Thomas

47.

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

48.

No one can make us angry. People can say and do things to us but it is still up to us as individuals to do what we want with our emotions in response to those things.

49.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

50.

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