Motivational Quotes

Anger

Anger cannot be dishonest.

- Bach, George R.

Best Quotes about Anger

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

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

Aurelius, Marcus

Actually, the streets are quite safe today, it's the people on them who aren't.

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

Greer, Germaine

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

Hull, Bobby

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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

Proverb

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.

10.

Do not suppress it-that would hurt you inside. Do not express it-this would not only hurt you inside, it would cause ripples in your surroundings. What you do is transform it.

Pilgrim, Peace

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Fuller, Thomas

15.

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

Maxim, Samurai

16.

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

Laurence J. Peter

17.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

18.

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

Thurber, James

19.

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

Hugo, Victor

20.

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

21.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

22.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

23.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

24.

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

Shenstone, William

25.

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

26.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

27.

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

Bible

28.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

29.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

30.

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

Bible

31.

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

Bacon, Francis

32.

Sticks and stones may break your bones when there's anger to impart. Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart. Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

33.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

34.

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

Mckay, David O.

35.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

36.

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

Bible

37.

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

Harris, Sidney J.

38.

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.

39.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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As the whirlwind in its fury teareth up trees, and deformeth the face of nature, or as an earthquake in its convulsions overturneth whole cities; so the rage of an angry man throweth mischief around him.

Akhenaton

41.

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

Ellis, Havelock

42.

To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.

Edwards, Tryon

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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

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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

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

Sarnoff, David

46.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

47.

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

48.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

50.

I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

Barton, Clara