Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

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.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

The best answer to anger is silence.

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

Webster, John

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Quarles, Francis

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

Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, everyone should be serene, slow-pulsed and calm.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

10.

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

Emily Dickinson

11.

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

12.

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.

13.

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

Bible

14.

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

Joan Lunden

15.

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

16.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

Joubert, Joseph

17.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

18.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Malcolm X

19.

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

Seneca

20.

A soft answer truth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger. [Proverbs 15:1]

Bible

21.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

22.

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

Hull, Bobby

23.

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

Renard, Jules

24.

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

Boyes, John F.

25.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

26.

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

Proverb

27.

Act nothing in a furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.

Fuller, Thomas

28.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

29.

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

Proverb

30.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

32.

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

Shenstone, William

33.

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

Syrus, Publilius

34.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

35.

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

Colton, Charles Caleb

36.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

37.

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

Bible

38.

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

Bible

39.

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

Russell, Bertrand

40.

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

41.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

42.

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

Buddha

43.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

44.

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

Bible

45.

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

46.

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

Horace

47.

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.

48.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

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