Motivational Quotes

Anger

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]

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Best Quotes about Anger

1.

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

2.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

3.

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

Secker, Thomas

4.

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

Edwards, Tryon

5.

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.

6.

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

7.

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.

8.

Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.

Tupper, Martin

9.

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

Wallenda, Karl

10.

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

11.

Doomed are the hotheads! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, I'm sorry.

Schuller, Robert H.

12.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

13.

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

George, David Lloyd

14.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

15.

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.

16.

Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.

Henry, M.

17.

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

Floyd, Pink

18.

The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them. [Proverbs 12:6]

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19.

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.

20.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

21.

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

Syrus, Publilius

22.

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

Clarendon

23.

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.

24.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

25.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

26.

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

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.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

29.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

30.

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

Proverb

31.

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

Hugo, Victor

32.

The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.

Lucan, F. L.

33.

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

Horace

34.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

35.

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

Bible

36.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

37.

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

Plato

38.

The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.

Freud, Sigmund

39.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

40.

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.

41.

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

42.

Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.

Greg Evans

43.

Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, everyone should be serene, slow-pulsed and calm.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

44.

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

Dyer, Wayne

45.

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