Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Shenstone, William

Best Quotes about Anger

It is better to do thine own duty, however lacking in merit, than to do that of another, even though efficiently. It is better to die doing one's own duty, for to do the duty of another is fraught with danger.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Epictetus

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

Shakespeare, William

Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. [Ecclesiastes 7:9]

Bible

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.

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

Freud, Sigmund

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.

The best answer to anger is silence.

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

10.

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

Proverb

11.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

12.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

13.

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

Floyd, Pink

14.

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

Shenstone, William

15.

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

16.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

17.

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

18.

Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

19.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

20.

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

Webster, John

21.

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

Shakespeare, William

22.

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

Syrus, Publilius

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.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

26.

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.

27.

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.

28.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life.

Maxim, Samurai

30.

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

Dyer, Wayne

31.

I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

Barton, Clara

32.

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

Emily Dickinson

33.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

34.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

35.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

36.

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.

Fuller, Thomas

37.

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

Greg Evans

38.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

39.

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

40.

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

41.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

42.

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

Thurber, James

43.

Anyone can become angry -- that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way -- this is not easy.

Aristotle

44.

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

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.

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

Proverb

47.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

48.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

49.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.