Motivational Quotes

Anger

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

- Webster, Daniel

Best Quotes about Anger

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

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.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Bible

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Bible

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

10.

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

Webster, John

11.

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.

12.

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

13.

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

Seneca

14.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

15.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

16.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

17.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

18.

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

19.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

20.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

21.

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

Pope, Alexander

22.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

23.

The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.

Long, Haniel

24.

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

Bible

25.

When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other.

Gaulle, Charles De

26.

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

Renard, Jules

27.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

28.

Anger makes dull men witty -- but it keeps them poor.

Bacon, Francis

29.

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

30.

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

Bible

31.

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

32.

Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.

Wallenda, Karl

33.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

34.

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

Hull, Bobby

35.

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

Ellis, Havelock

36.

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

37.

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

38.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

39.

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

40.

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

Secker, Thomas

41.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.