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

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

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

Bible

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

Bible

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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

Buddha

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

However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

Ellis, Havelock

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.

10.

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

11.

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

Thurber, James

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.

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

Quarles, Francis

14.

The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.

Lucan, F. L.

15.

I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they

White, Elwyn Brooks

16.

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

Maxim, Samurai

17.

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

Fuller, Thomas

18.

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

Quincey, Thomas De

19.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

20.

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

21.

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

22.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

23.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

24.

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

George, David Lloyd

25.

I lose my temper, but it's all over in a minute, said the student. So is the hydrogen bomb, I replied. But think of the damage it produces!

Sweeting, George

26.

Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.

Mario Puzo

27.

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

Greer, Germaine

28.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

29.

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

Freud, Sigmund

30.

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.

31.

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

Bible

32.

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

Seneca

33.

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.

34.

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

35.

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

Laurence J. Peter

36.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

37.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

38.

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

Bible

39.

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

40.

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

Joubert, Joseph

41.

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

Horace

42.

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

43.

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.

44.

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

Emily Dickinson

45.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

46.

Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.

Tupper, Martin

47.

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

48.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

49.

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

Proverb

50.

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