Motivational Quotes

Anger

The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.

- Lucan, F. L.

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

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

Seneca

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Thurber, James

The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Emily Dickinson

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

10.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

11.

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

12.

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

13.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

14.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

15.

Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.

Mario Puzo

16.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

17.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Pope, Alexander

21.

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

22.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

23.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

24.

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

Dickinson, Emily

25.

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

26.

If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.

Epictetus

27.

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.

28.

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

Bacon, Francis

29.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

30.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

31.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

32.

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

33.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

34.

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

35.

Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

Quarles, Francis

36.

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

37.

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.

38.

The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.

Long, Haniel

39.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

40.

The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

41.

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

Boyes, John F.

42.

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

43.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

44.

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

Secker, Thomas

45.

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

46.

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

Churchill, Winston

47.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

48.

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

Renard, Jules

49.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.