Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Baldwin, James

Best Quotes about Anger

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

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

Sarnoff, David

Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Wallenda, Karl

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

Landor, Walter Savage

Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

Halifax, Edward F.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

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

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.

10.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

11.

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

12.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

13.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

14.

No one is as angry as the person who is wrong.

Proverb

15.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

16.

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

17.

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

Lucan, F. L.

18.

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

19.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

20.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

21.

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

22.

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

23.

The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.

Freud, Sigmund

24.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

25.

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

26.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

Joubert, Joseph

27.

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

Boyes, John F.

28.

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

29.

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

Greer, Germaine

30.

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

Maxim, Samurai

31.

Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

Seneca

32.

The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

33.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

34.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

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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

39.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

40.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

41.

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

George, David Lloyd

42.

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

Mckay, David O.

43.

Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.

Henry, M.

44.

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

Angelou, Maya

45.

The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.

Long, Haniel

46.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

47.

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

Bible

48.

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

49.

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

Shenstone, William

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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.