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.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

2.

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

3.

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

4.

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

Wallenda, Karl

5.

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

6.

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

Churchill, Winston

7.

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

Edwards, Tryon

8.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

9.

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

10.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

11.

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

Lucan, F. L.

12.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

13.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

14.

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

Dyer, Wayne

15.

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

Shakespeare, William

16.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

17.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

18.

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

Shakespeare, William

19.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

20.

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

21.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

22.

If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wring, but the coals are.

Beecher, Henry Ward

23.

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

Bible

24.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

25.

The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

Landor, Walter Savage

26.

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

Bible

27.

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

Fuller, Thomas

28.

Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

Halifax, Edward F.

29.

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

30.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

31.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

32.

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

Plato

33.

By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned; By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned.

Pope, Alexander

34.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

35.

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

Fuller, Thomas

36.

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

Freud, Sigmund

37.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

38.

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.

39.

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

George, David Lloyd

40.

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

41.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

42.

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.

43.

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.

44.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

45.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

46.

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

Hull, Bobby

47.

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

Maxim, Samurai

48.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

49.

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

50.

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

Shenstone, William