Motivational Quotes

Anger

Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger. [Ephesians 4:26]

- Bible

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

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

Buddha

2.

In time of danger it is proper to be alarmed until danger be near at hand; but when we perceive that danger is near, we should oppose it as if we were not afraid.

Hitopadesa

3.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

4.

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

5.

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

Fuller, Thomas

6.

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

Floyd, Pink

7.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

8.

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

Colton, Charles Caleb

9.

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

10.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.

Buddha

11.

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

Ruskin, John

12.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

13.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

14.

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.

15.

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

George, David Lloyd

16.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

17.

The best answer to anger is silence.

18.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

19.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

20.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

21.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

22.

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

23.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.

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

25.

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

Quarles, Francis

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.

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

Mario Puzo

28.

Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.

Cervantes, Miguel De

29.

Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

30.

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

Sarnoff, David

31.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

32.

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

Bible

33.

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

Hull, Bobby

34.

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

35.

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

Horace

36.

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

Greer, Germaine

37.

Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.

Halifax, Edward F.

38.

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

39.

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.

40.

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

Proverb

41.

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

Boyes, John F.

42.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

43.

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

44.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

45.

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

Shenstone, William

46.

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.

Colton, Charles Caleb

47.

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

48.

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

49.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

50.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca