My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. [James 1:19-20]

Bible

16.

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

17.

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

18.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

19.

Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.

Greg Evans

20.

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

Fuller, Thomas

21.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

22.

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

23.

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

Baldwin, James

24.

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

25.

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

Boyes, John F.

26.

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

Shakespeare, William

27.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

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

Dyer, Wayne

29.

In time of danger it is proper to be alarmed until danger be near at hand; but when we perceive that danger is near, we should oppose it as if we were not afraid.

Hitopadesa

30.

By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned; By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned.

Pope, Alexander

31.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

32.

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

Shakespeare, William

33.

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

George, David Lloyd

34.

No one can make us angry. People can say and do things to us but it is still up to us as individuals to do what we want with our emotions in response to those things.

35.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

36.

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

Laurence J. Peter

37.

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

Angelis, Barbara De

38.

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

Emily Dickinson

39.

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.

40.

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

41.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

42.

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

Renard, Jules

43.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

44.

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

Bacon, Francis

45.

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

Mckay, David O.

46.

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

Shakespeare, William

47.

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

48.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

49.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

50.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb