Motivational Quotes

Anger

Anger cannot be dishonest.

- Bach, George R.

Best Quotes about Anger

The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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 best answer to anger is silence.

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

Mckay, David O.

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

Hugo, Victor

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

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

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

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

Proverb

10.

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

Shakespeare, William

11.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

12.

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

13.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

14.

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

15.

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.

16.

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

Seneca

17.

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.

18.

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

19.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.

Tupper, Martin

21.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

22.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

23.

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

Wallenda, Karl

24.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

25.

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

26.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

27.

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

Bible

28.

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

Lucan, F. L.

29.

Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.

Antonius, Marcus

30.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

31.

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

32.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

33.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

34.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

35.

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

36.

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

Maxim, Samurai

37.

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

Bible

38.

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

Bacon, Francis

39.

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

Bible

40.

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

Angelou, Maya

41.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

42.

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

Sarnoff, David

43.

Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

44.

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

Bible

45.

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

Ellis, Havelock

46.

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

Fuller, Thomas

47.

Doomed are the hotheads! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, I'm sorry.

Schuller, Robert H.

48.

Let not the sun go down upon your wrath. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

49.

Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.

Buddha

50.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace