Motivational Quotes

Anger

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Anger

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

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.

The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied with small gains, which will come by creative adaptations.

I Ching

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

Bible

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

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

Boyes, John F.

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

Gracian, Baltasar

10.

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

Renard, Jules

11.

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

Bible

12.

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

Hull, Bobby

13.

Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.

Beecher, Henry Ward

14.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Plato

18.

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

Churchill, Winston

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Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid at the back of reason, to come to the front when bidden. For once it begins to take control of the mind, it calls just what it does cruelly.

Curtis, George William

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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

21.

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

22.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

23.

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

Edwards, Tryon

24.

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

25.

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

Proverb

26.

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

27.

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

Bible

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.

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

Joubert, Joseph

30.

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

31.

If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself:'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.'When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.

Epictetus

32.

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

Fuller, Thomas

33.

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.

34.

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

Ruskin, John

35.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

36.

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

Buddha

37.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

38.

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

Wallenda, Karl

39.

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

Russell, Bertrand

40.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

41.

It is better to do thine own duty, however lacking in merit, than to do that of another, even though efficiently. It is better to die doing one's own duty, for to do the duty of another is fraught with danger.

Bhagavad Gita

42.

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

Churchill, Winston

43.

I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.

Maxine Waters

44.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

45.

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.

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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

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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

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

Henry Ward Beecher

49.

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

50.

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

Quarles, Francis