Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Pope, Alexander

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

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

2.

Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.

Henry, M.

3.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

4.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

5.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

6.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

7.

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

Seneca

8.

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

9.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

10.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

11.

It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.

Riley, James Whitcomb

12.

Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

13.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

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

Churchill, Winston

15.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

16.

One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.

Syrus, Publilius

17.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

18.

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

Thurber, James

19.

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

Proverb

20.

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.

21.

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

22.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

23.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

24.

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

25.

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

26.

Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

Proverb, Malabar

27.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

28.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

29.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

30.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

31.

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

Russell, Bertrand

32.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

33.

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

34.

My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. [James 1:19-20]

Bible

35.

He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

Plato

36.

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

Angelou, Maya

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

41.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

42.

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

Henry Ward Beecher