Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

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

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

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

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Shakespeare, William

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

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

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

Renard, Jules

10.

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

11.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

12.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

13.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

14.

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

Plato

15.

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

16.

However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

Ellis, Havelock

17.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

18.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

19.

Whenever you get red in the face, whenever you raise your voice, whenever you get hot under the collar or angry, rebellious or negative in spirit, then know that the spirit of God is leaving you and the spirit of Satan is beginning to take over.

20.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

21.

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

22.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

23.

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

Proverb

24.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

25.

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

Proverb

26.

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

27.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

28.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

29.

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

Bible

30.

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

Fuller, Thomas

31.

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

32.

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.

33.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

34.

Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

35.

Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid at the back of reason, to come to the front when bidden. For once it begins to take control of the mind, it calls just what it does cruelly.

Curtis, George William

36.

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

Bible

37.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

38.

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

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.

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

Mario Puzo

41.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

42.

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

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.

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

45.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

46.

There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.

Francis De Sales, St.

47.

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

Churchill, Winston