Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Webster, John

Best Quotes about Anger

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

Hugo, Victor

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Horace

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

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

Shenstone, William

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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

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

10.

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

11.

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

Seneca

12.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

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

Dyer, Wayne

14.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

15.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

16.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

17.

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

18.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

19.

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

Shakespeare, William

20.

The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

21.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

Nothing is so exhilarating in life as to be shot at with no result.

Churchill, Winston

23.

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.

24.

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

Webster, John

25.

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.

26.

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

Shakespeare, William

27.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

28.

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

29.

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

30.

Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

31.

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

Bible

32.

He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

Plato

33.

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.

34.

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

Baldwin, James

35.

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

36.

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

Proverb

37.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

38.

Actually, the streets are quite safe today, it's the people on them who aren't.

39.

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.

40.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

41.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

42.

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

43.

When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out -- because that's what's inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside.

Dyer, Wayne

44.

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

Floyd, Pink

45.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

46.

All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.

Paley, Babe

47.

The broad general rule is that a man is about as big as the things that make him angry.

48.

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

49.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

50.

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

Carlyle, Thomas