Motivational Quotes

Anger

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Anger

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

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

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.

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

Floyd, Pink

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

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.

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

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

Sarnoff, David

10.

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

11.

A soft answer truth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger. [Proverbs 15:1]

Bible

12.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

13.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

14.

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

15.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

16.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

17.

Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

Proverb, Malabar

18.

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

Shakespeare, William

19.

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

Renard, Jules

20.

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

Greer, Germaine

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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

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

Bible

24.

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

25.

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

Hull, Bobby

26.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

27.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

28.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

29.

Anger makes dull men witty -- but it keeps them poor.

Bacon, Francis

30.

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

Maxim, Samurai

31.

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

Buddha

32.

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

Churchill, Winston

33.

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

Seneca

34.

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

35.

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

Ruskin, John

37.

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

Syrus, Publilius

38.

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

Fuller, Thomas

39.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

40.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

41.

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.

42.

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

Bible

43.

Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much; such men are dangerous. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

44.

There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.

Webster, John

45.

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

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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

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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

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The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

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

Epictetus

50.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre