Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Renard, Jules

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.

George, David Lloyd

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

Stay out of the road, if you want to grow old.

Floyd, Pink

I have seen a peaceful expression turn to anger as fast as a whip cracks, and so the look on the face might mean less than what it seems to be.

Erica Eisdorfer

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

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Gracian, Baltasar

10.

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

Epictetus

11.

He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

Plato

12.

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

Buddha

13.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

14.

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

Emily Dickinson

15.

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

16.

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

Bible

17.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

18.

Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south.

Shakespeare, William

19.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

20.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

21.

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

Hull, Bobby

22.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

23.

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

24.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

25.

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

Proverb

26.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

27.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

28.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

29.

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.

30.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

31.

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

Greer, Germaine

32.

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

Baldwin, James

33.

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

Mario Puzo

34.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

35.

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

Wallenda, Karl

36.

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

37.

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

38.

Scornful men bring a city into a snare, but wise men turn away wrath. [Proverbs 29:8]

Bible

39.

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

Churchill, Winston

40.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

41.

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

42.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

43.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

44.

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

Bible

45.

The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.