Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

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 is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Dyer, Wayne

10.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

11.

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

Edwards, Tryon

12.

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

13.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

14.

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

Lucan, F. L.

15.

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

16.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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

18.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Proverb

19.

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

Renard, Jules

20.

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

21.

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

Seneca

22.

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

Bible

23.

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

Bible

24.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

25.

As the whirlwind in its fury teareth up trees, and deformeth the face of nature, or as an earthquake in its convulsions overturneth whole cities; so the rage of an angry man throweth mischief around him.

Akhenaton

26.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

27.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

28.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

29.

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

Thurber, James

30.

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

Laurence J. Peter

31.

Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

Proverb, Malabar

32.

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

33.

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.

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The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

35.

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

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Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

37.

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

Proverb

38.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

39.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

40.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

41.

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

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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

43.

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

Wallenda, Karl

44.

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

45.

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

46.

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.

47.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Pope, Alexander