Motivational Quotes

Anger

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

- Selden, John

Best Quotes about Anger

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

Let not the sun go down upon your wrath. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Epictetus

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

George, David Lloyd

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

Shenstone, William

10.

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

11.

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

Angelou, Maya

12.

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

13.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Proverb

14.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

15.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

16.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

17.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

18.

What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you.

Dyer, Wayne

19.

I used to store my anger and it affected my play. Now I get it out. I'm never rude to my playing partner. I'm very focused on the ball. Then it's over.

Alfredsson, Helen

20.

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.

21.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

22.

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

23.

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

Shakespeare, William

24.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

25.

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

26.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

27.

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

Greg Evans

28.

Whenever you get red in the face, whenever you raise your voice, whenever you get hot under the collar or angry, rebellious or negative in spirit, then know that the spirit of God is leaving you and the spirit of Satan is beginning to take over.

29.

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

30.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

31.

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

32.

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

Churchill, Winston

33.

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.

34.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

35.

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

36.

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

Mario Puzo

37.

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

38.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

39.

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

40.

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

41.

Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.

Hillard, G. S.

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.

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

Wallenda, Karl

44.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

45.

Between the anvil and the hammer.