Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

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

My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. [James 1:19-20]

Bible

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

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 rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.

Edwards, Tryon

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

Aurelius, Marcus

10.

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

Mizner, Wilson

11.

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

Webster, John

12.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

13.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

14.

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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Riley, James Whitcomb

16.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

17.

Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.

Buddha

18.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

19.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

20.

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

Fuller, Thomas

22.

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

Russell, Bertrand

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

George, David Lloyd

24.

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

Hugo, Victor

25.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

26.

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

Secker, Thomas

27.

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

Greer, Germaine

28.

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

Joubert, Joseph

29.

Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.

Beecher, Henry Ward

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Floyd, Pink

33.

No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.

Brown, John Mason

34.

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

Clarendon

35.

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

36.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

37.

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

38.

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

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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

40.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

41.

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.

42.

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

Proverb

43.

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

Ellis, Havelock

44.

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

Fuller, Thomas

45.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

46.

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

47.

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

Ruskin, John

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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

49.

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Henry Ward Beecher