Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Schuller, Robert H.

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

2.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

3.

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

4.

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

5.

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

Floyd, Pink

6.

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

Churchill, Winston

7.

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

Epictetus

8.

Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.

Tupper, Martin

9.

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

10.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

11.

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

Emily Dickinson

12.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

13.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

14.

All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.

Paley, Babe

15.

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

16.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

18.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

19.

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

Buddha

20.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

21.

It is better to do thine own duty, however lacking in merit, than to do that of another, even though efficiently. It is better to die doing one's own duty, for to do the duty of another is fraught with danger.

Bhagavad Gita

22.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

23.

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

Bible

24.

Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

25.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

26.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

27.

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

28.

The best answer to anger is silence.

29.

Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.

Mckay, David O.

30.

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

Ellis, Havelock

31.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Angelou, Maya

32.

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

Wallenda, Karl

33.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

34.

Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much; such men are dangerous. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

35.

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

36.

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

Dyer, Wayne

37.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

38.

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.

39.

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

Joubert, Joseph

40.

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

41.

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

Thurber, James

42.

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

Greg Evans

43.

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

Lucan, F. L.

44.

When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out -- because that's what's inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside.

Dyer, Wayne

45.

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

46.

Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.

Cervantes, Miguel De

47.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

48.

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

Proverb

49.

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