Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

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

2.

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

3.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

4.

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.

5.

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

Emily Dickinson

6.

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

Horace

7.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

8.

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.

9.

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

Bible

10.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

11.

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

George, David Lloyd

12.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

13.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

14.

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.

Cherie Carter-Scott

15.

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

Fuller, Thomas

16.

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

17.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

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.

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

Angelou, Maya

20.

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

Lucan, F. L.

21.

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

Churchill, Winston

22.

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

23.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

Carlyle, Thomas

24.

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

Thurber, James

25.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

26.

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.

27.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

28.

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

Laurence J. Peter

29.

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

Russell, Bertrand

30.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

31.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

32.

There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.

Francis De Sales, St.

33.

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

Bible

34.

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

Epictetus

35.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

36.

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

Bible

37.

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.

Fuller, Thomas

38.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

39.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

40.

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

Shenstone, William

41.

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

Baldwin, James

42.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

43.

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

44.

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

Bible

45.

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

46.

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

Renard, Jules

47.

Stay out of the road, if you want to grow old.