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

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

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

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

The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.

Ruskin, John

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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Webster, John

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

Lucan, F. L.

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

10.

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

Shakespeare, William

11.

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

Emily Dickinson

12.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

13.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

Joubert, Joseph

14.

The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression. [Proverbs 19:11]

Bible

15.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

16.

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

Bacon, Francis

17.

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

Quincey, Thomas De

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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.

21.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

22.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

23.

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

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.

Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

Proverb, Malabar

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.

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

Churchill, Winston

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

31.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Proverb

32.

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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Danger -- if you meet it promptly and without flinching -- you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Churchill, Winston

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Floyd, Pink

37.

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

Baldwin, James

38.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

39.

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.

40.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

41.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

42.

If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.

Epictetus

43.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

44.

Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.

Fuller, Thomas

45.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

46.

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

47.

I lose my temper, but it's all over in a minute, said the student. So is the hydrogen bomb, I replied. But think of the damage it produces!

Sweeting, George

48.

The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

Landor, Walter Savage

49.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

50.

Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much; such men are dangerous. [Julius Caesar]