Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

2.

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

3.

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.

4.

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

Greer, Germaine

5.

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

Wallenda, Karl

6.

Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.

Tupper, Martin

7.

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

Proverb, Malabar

8.

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

9.

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

Pope, Alexander

10.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.

Buddha

11.

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

Joubert, Joseph

12.

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

Boyes, John F.

13.

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

Bible

14.

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

Gracian, Baltasar

15.

The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

16.

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

Bible

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

21.

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

Baldwin, James

22.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

23.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

24.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

25.

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

26.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

27.

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

Emily Dickinson

28.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

29.

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

30.

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

Thurber, James

31.

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

32.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

33.

The best answer to anger is silence.

34.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

35.

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

Mario Puzo

36.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

37.

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

38.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

39.

It is better to do thine own duty, however lacking in merit, than to do that of another, even though efficiently. It is better to die doing one's own duty, for to do the duty of another is fraught with danger.

Bhagavad Gita

40.

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

41.

Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.

Fuller, Thomas

42.

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

Proverb

43.

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

Fuller, Thomas

44.

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.

45.

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

Mizner, Wilson

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.

Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.

Hull, Bobby

48.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian