Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

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Best Quotes about Anger

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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

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

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

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

Webster, John

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

Edwards, Tryon

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

Thurber, James

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

Shakespeare, William

11.

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

Greer, Germaine

12.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

13.

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

Bible

14.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

15.

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

16.

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

Quarles, Francis

17.

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

Baldwin, James

18.

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

Proverb

19.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

21.

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

Bacon, Francis

22.

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

23.

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

Secker, Thomas

24.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

25.

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

Joubert, Joseph

26.

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

Churchill, Winston

27.

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

28.

We are confronted by a first danger, the destructiveness of applied atomic energy. And then we are confronted by a second danger, that we do not enough appreciate the first danger.

Swing, Raymond G.

29.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

30.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

31.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

32.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

33.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

34.

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

Fuller, Thomas

35.

My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. [James 1:19-20]

Bible

36.

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

Floyd, Pink

37.

Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.

Mckay, David O.

38.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

39.

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.

40.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

41.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

42.

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

43.

When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

Jefferson, Thomas

44.

No one can make us angry. People can say and do things to us but it is still up to us as individuals to do what we want with our emotions in response to those things.

45.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

46.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

47.

Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.

Mario Puzo

48.

The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

49.

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

50.

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