Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Secker, Thomas

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Dyer, Wayne

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

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

Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

10.

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

Bible

11.

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

12.

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

Angelou, Maya

13.

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

Shakespeare, William

14.

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.

15.

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

16.

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

Fuller, Thomas

17.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

18.

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

19.

Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

Akhenaton

20.

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

Proverb

21.

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

22.

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

Thurber, James

23.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

24.

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

Shakespeare, William

25.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

26.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

27.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

28.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

29.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

30.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

31.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

32.

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.

33.

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

34.

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

Hull, Bobby

35.

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

Mario Puzo

36.

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

37.

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

Floyd, Pink

38.

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

39.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

40.

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

Aristotle

41.

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

Fuller, Thomas

42.

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

Plato

43.

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.

44.

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

Lucan, F. L.

45.

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

Shenstone, William

46.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

47.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

48.

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

Epictetus

49.

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

Seneca

50.

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.