Motivational Quotes

Anger

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

- Webster, Daniel

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

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

Hugo, Victor

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Bible

He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.

Magnus, Saint Albertus

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

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

10.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

11.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

12.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

13.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

14.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

15.

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

Proverb

16.

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

Akhenaton

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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

18.

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.

19.

The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

20.

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

21.

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

Seneca

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Mckay, David O.

25.

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

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

Angelou, Maya

27.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

29.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Sarnoff, David

33.

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

Hull, Bobby

34.

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.

35.

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

Dyer, Wayne

36.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

37.

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

38.

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

Pope, Alexander

39.

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

40.

Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.

Shakespeare, William

41.

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

42.

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

Proverb

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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

44.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

45.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

46.

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

Floyd, Pink

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