Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Mizner, Wilson

Best Quotes about Anger

Anger is one letter short of danger, Greatest remedy for anger is delay

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

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

10.

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

Proverb

11.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

12.

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

13.

The best answer to anger is silence.

14.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

15.

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

Greer, Germaine

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Lucan, F. L.

19.

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

20.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Quarles, Francis

21.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

22.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

23.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

24.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

25.

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

26.

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.

27.

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

Akhenaton

28.

Actually, the streets are quite safe today, it's the people on them who aren't.

29.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

30.

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

31.

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

Bible

32.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

33.

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

Dickinson, Emily

34.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

35.

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.

36.

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

Colton, Charles Caleb

37.

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

38.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

39.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

40.

Whenever you get red in the face, whenever you raise your voice, whenever you get hot under the collar or angry, rebellious or negative in spirit, then know that the spirit of God is leaving you and the spirit of Satan is beginning to take over.

41.

When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other.

Gaulle, Charles De

42.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

43.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

44.

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

45.

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

Syrus, Publilius

46.

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

Shenstone, 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

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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

49.

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

Laurence J. Peter

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You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

Buddha