Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Proverb, Malabar

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Mario Puzo

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Shakespeare, William

Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.

Antonius, Marcus

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Seneca

10.

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

Joubert, Joseph

11.

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

Baldwin, James

12.

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

Bible

13.

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

14.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

15.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

16.

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

17.

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

Aurelius, Marcus

18.

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

Mizner, Wilson

19.

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

Seneca

20.

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

Laurence J. Peter

21.

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

22.

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

Hugo, Victor

23.

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

Buddha

24.

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

25.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

26.

Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.

Halifax, Edward F.

27.

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

Churchill, Winston

28.

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

Churchill, Winston

29.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

30.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

31.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

32.

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

33.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

34.

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

Emily Dickinson

35.

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

36.

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

37.

To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.

Watts, Alan W.

38.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

39.

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

Fuller, Thomas

40.

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

41.

There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.

Webster, John

42.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

43.

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

44.

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

Renard, Jules

45.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

46.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

47.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

48.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

49.

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

Thurber, James

50.

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