Motivational Quotes

Anger

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.

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Bible

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

Akhenaton

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

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

Emily Dickinson

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

Proverb

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

Shakespeare, William

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.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

10.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Renard, Jules

14.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

15.

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

Proverb

16.

It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and angry woman. [Proverbs 21:19]

Bible

17.

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

Angelou, Maya

18.

I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

Colby, Frank Moore

19.

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

Thurber, James

20.

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

Buddha

21.

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

Epictetus

22.

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

23.

Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.

Fuller, Thomas

24.

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

Shakespeare, William

25.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

26.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

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.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

29.

The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances boldly to meet them head on. The weak man grows agitated. But the superior man stands up to fate, endures resolutely in his inner certainty If ignorant both

I Ching

30.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.

Buddha

31.

In time of danger it is proper to be alarmed until danger be near at hand; but when we perceive that danger is near, we should oppose it as if we were not afraid.

Hitopadesa

32.

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

33.

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.

34.

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

Hull, Bobby

35.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

36.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

37.

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

Churchill, Winston

38.

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

Bible

39.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

40.

The best answer to anger is silence.

41.

Do not suppress it-that would hurt you inside. Do not express it-this would not only hurt you inside, it would cause ripples in your surroundings. What you do is transform it.

Pilgrim, Peace

42.

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

43.

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

44.

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

Sarnoff, David

45.

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

Dickinson, Emily

46.

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

47.

Don't play for safety -- it's the most dangerous thing in the world.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

48.

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.

49.

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

50.

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

Hugo, Victor