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

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

Boyes, John F.

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

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

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

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Quarles, Francis

10.

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

Proverb

11.

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

12.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

13.

The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.

Ruskin, John

14.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

15.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

16.

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

Thurber, James

17.

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

George, David Lloyd

18.

Act nothing in a furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.

Fuller, Thomas

19.

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

Maxim, Samurai

20.

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

21.

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.

22.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

23.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

24.

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

Buddha

25.

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

Churchill, Winston

26.

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

27.

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

Fuller, Thomas

28.

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

Seneca

29.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

30.

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

31.

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.

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

35.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

36.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

37.

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

Edwards, Tryon

38.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

39.

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

40.

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

Bible

41.

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

Angelou, Maya

42.

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

43.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

44.

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

Plato

45.

To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.

Watts, Alan W.

46.

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

Bible

47.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

48.

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

49.

When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Aurelius, Marcus