Motivational Quotes

Anger

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

- Webster, Daniel

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

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

Fuller, Thomas

2.

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

Ruskin, John

3.

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

4.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

5.

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

6.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

7.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

8.

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

Mizner, Wilson

9.

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

10.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

11.

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.

12.

Sticks and stones may break your bones when there's anger to impart. Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart. Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

13.

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

Buddha

14.

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

Laurence J. Peter

15.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

16.

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

Dyer, Wayne

17.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

18.

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

Floyd, Pink

19.

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

Bible

20.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

21.

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.

Cherie Carter-Scott

22.

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

Shakespeare, William

23.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

24.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

25.

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

26.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

27.

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

Dyer, Wayne

28.

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

Freud, Sigmund

29.

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

30.

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

Webster, John

31.

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

George, David Lloyd

32.

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

Shakespeare, William

33.

The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

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.

35.

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

Angelis, Barbara De

36.

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

Angelou, Maya

37.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

38.

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

39.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

40.

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

Epictetus

41.

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

42.

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

Sarnoff, David

43.

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

Bible

44.

When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other.

Gaulle, Charles De

45.

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

46.

The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them. [Proverbs 12:6]

Bible

47.

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

Hull, Bobby

48.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

49.

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