Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

Clarendon

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

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

Bierce, Ambrose

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Boyes, John F.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

10.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

11.

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

12.

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.

13.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

14.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

15.

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.

16.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

17.

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

Edwards, Tryon

18.

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

Buddha

19.

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

Proverb

20.

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

Mario Puzo

21.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

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

Horace

23.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

24.

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

25.

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

Webster, John

26.

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

27.

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

28.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

29.

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

Plato

30.

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

Bible

31.

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

32.

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

33.

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

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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

35.

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

Mckay, David O.

36.

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

Dyer, Wayne

37.

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

Secker, Thomas

38.

I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

Barton, Clara

39.

The best answer to anger is silence.

40.

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

41.

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.

42.

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

Baldwin, James

43.

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

44.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

45.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

46.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

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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

48.

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

Thurber, James

49.

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

Syrus, Publilius

50.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo