Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

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

Shakespeare, William

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

The broad general rule is that a man is about as big as the things that make him angry.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

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.

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

Bible

12.

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

Fuller, Thomas

13.

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

Plato

14.

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

15.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

16.

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

Russell, Bertrand

17.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

18.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

19.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

20.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

21.

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

22.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

23.

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

Seneca

24.

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

Bible

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.

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

27.

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

Shenstone, William

28.

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

29.

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

Maxim, Samurai

30.

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

Emily Dickinson

31.

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

Quincey, Thomas De

32.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

33.

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

34.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

35.

Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south.

Shakespeare, William

36.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

37.

By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned; By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned.

Pope, Alexander

38.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

39.

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

Buddha

40.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

41.

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

Dickinson, Emily

42.

Nothing is so exhilarating in life as to be shot at with no result.

Churchill, Winston

43.

Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

Quarles, Francis

44.

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

45.

One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.

Syrus, Publilius

46.

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

Baldwin, James

47.

There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.

Dyer, Wayne

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