Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Aurelius, Marcus

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

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Quincey, Thomas De

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.

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

Thurber, James

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

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

10.

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

Bible

11.

The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence.

Beecher, Henry Ward

12.

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

George, David Lloyd

13.

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

Bible

14.

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.

15.

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

Churchill, Winston

16.

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

Dickinson, Emily

17.

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

Seneca

18.

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

19.

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

Proverb

20.

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.

21.

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

Epictetus

22.

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

Plato

23.

The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

24.

Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.

Greer, Germaine

25.

One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.

Syrus, Publilius

26.

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

Proverb

27.

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

28.

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

29.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

30.

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

Angelou, Maya

31.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

32.

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

Mckay, David O.

33.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

34.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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.

38.

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.

39.

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

40.

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.

41.

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

42.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

44.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

45.

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

Dyer, Wayne

46.

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

47.

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

Hugo, Victor

48.

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

Joan Lunden

49.

The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong.

Mizner, Wilson

50.

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

Wallenda, Karl