Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Laurence J. Peter

Best Quotes about Anger

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

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.

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Bible

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Horace

Doomed are the hotheads! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, I'm sorry.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

10.

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

Epictetus

11.

Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.

Henry Ward Beecher

12.

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

13.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

14.

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

Bible

15.

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

Syrus, Publilius

16.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.

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

Laurence J. Peter

18.

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

Ellis, Havelock

19.

Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.

Baldwin, James

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.

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

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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

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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

27.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

28.

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

Angelis, Barbara De

29.

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

30.

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

Webster, John

31.

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

32.

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

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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.

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Scornful men bring a city into a snare, but wise men turn away wrath. [Proverbs 29:8]

Bible

35.

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.

Cherie Carter-Scott

36.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

37.

Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much; such men are dangerous. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

38.

The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life.

Maxim, Samurai

39.

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Mckay, David O.

41.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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

43.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

44.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

45.

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

Edwards, Tryon

46.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

47.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

48.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

49.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

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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

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