Motivational Quotes

Anger

Between the anvil and the hammer.

- Proverb, German

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Proverb

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Danger -- if you meet it promptly and without flinching -- you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Churchill, Winston

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

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

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

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

Boyes, John F.

10.

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

11.

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

Shaw, George Bernard

12.

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

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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.

14.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

15.

Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.

Greg Evans

16.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

17.

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

18.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression. [Proverbs 19:11]

Bible

20.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

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

Fuller, Thomas

22.

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

Fuller, Thomas

23.

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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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

25.

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

Horace

26.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

27.

It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and angry woman. [Proverbs 21:19]

Bible

28.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

29.

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.

30.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

31.

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

Ellis, Havelock

32.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

33.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

Carlyle, Thomas

34.

Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.

Shakespeare, William

35.

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

Mizner, Wilson

36.

Don't play for safety -- it's the most dangerous thing in the world.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

37.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

38.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

39.

The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.

Ruskin, John

40.

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

Lucan, F. L.

41.

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

42.

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

Laurence J. Peter

43.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

44.

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

Wallenda, Karl

45.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

46.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

47.

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

Epictetus

48.

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

Hull, Bobby

49.

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

Emily Dickinson