Motivational Quotes

Anger

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

- Quarles, Francis

Best Quotes about Anger

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Bible

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

Fuller, Thomas

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.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

Aurelius, Marcus

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.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

10.

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

11.

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

Horace

12.

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.

13.

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

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.

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

16.

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

Churchill, Winston

17.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

18.

The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life.

Maxim, Samurai

19.

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.

20.

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

Russell, Bertrand

21.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

22.

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

Proverb

23.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Quarles, Francis

24.

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

Mario Puzo

25.

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

26.

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

Bible

27.

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.

28.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

29.

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

Epictetus

30.

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.

31.

There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.

Dyer, Wayne

32.

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

33.

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

Fuller, Thomas

34.

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

Bible

35.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

36.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

37.

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.

Cherie Carter-Scott

38.

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

Thurber, James

39.

Anger is one letter short of danger, Greatest remedy for anger is delay

40.

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

Shaw, George Bernard

41.

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

Shenstone, William

42.

Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.

Henry Ward Beecher

43.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

44.

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

Wallenda, Karl

45.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

46.

The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.

George, David Lloyd

47.

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

Hull, Bobby

48.

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

Angelou, Maya

49.

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

50.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De