Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Bible

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

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

Ellis, Havelock

Riley, James Whitcomb

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

Maxim, Samurai

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

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

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

Mckay, David O.

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

10.

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

Angelou, Maya

11.

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

12.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

13.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

14.

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

Dickinson, Emily

15.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

16.

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

Mario Puzo

17.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

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

Bible

19.

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

20.

In time of danger it is proper to be alarmed until danger be near at hand; but when we perceive that danger is near, we should oppose it as if we were not afraid.

Hitopadesa

21.

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

22.

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.

23.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

24.

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

25.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

26.

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

27.

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

Sarnoff, David

28.

If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself:'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.'When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.

Epictetus

29.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

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

Emily Dickinson

31.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

32.

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

Greer, Germaine

33.

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

Fuller, Thomas

34.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

35.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

36.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

37.

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

Shakespeare, William

38.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

39.

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

Bible

40.

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

41.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

42.

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

Syrus, Publilius

43.

The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence.

Beecher, Henry Ward

44.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

45.

To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.

Edwards, Tryon

46.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

47.

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.

48.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

49.

Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.

Baldwin, James

50.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre