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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Bierce, Ambrose

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

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.

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Ruskin, John

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

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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

11.

There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.

Dyer, Wayne

12.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

13.

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

14.

No one can make us angry. People can say and do things to us but it is still up to us as individuals to do what we want with our emotions in response to those things.

15.

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

Webster, John

16.

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

Proverb

17.

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

Laurence J. Peter

18.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

19.

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

Churchill, Winston

20.

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

Proverb, Malabar

21.

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

Greer, Germaine

22.

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

23.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

24.

If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wring, but the coals are.

Beecher, Henry Ward

25.

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

Churchill, Winston

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

31.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

32.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

33.

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.

34.

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

35.

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

36.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

37.

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

Wallenda, Karl

38.

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

Dickinson, Emily

39.

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

Edwards, Tryon

40.

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

41.

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

Fuller, Thomas

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

45.

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

46.

Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

Akhenaton

47.

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

48.

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

Renard, Jules

49.

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

Plato

50.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb