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.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

2.

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

3.

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

Maxim, Samurai

4.

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

Plato

5.

Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

Quarles, Francis

6.

When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out -- because that's what's inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside.

Dyer, Wayne

7.

A wave of anger washed over me, anger against myself, at my age at the time, that stupid lyrically age, when a man is too great a riddle to himself to be interested in the riddles outside himself and when other people are mere walking mirrors in which he is amazed to find his own emotions, his own worth.

Kundera, Milan

8.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

9.

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

Mario Puzo

10.

Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.

Beecher, Henry Ward

11.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

12.

The best answer to anger is silence.

13.

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

14.

Anger as soon as fed is dead; 'Tis starving makes it fat.

Dickinson, Emily

15.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Malcolm X

16.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

17.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

18.

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

Freud, Sigmund

19.

Anger as soon as fed is dead- 'Tis starving makes it fat.

Emily Dickinson

20.

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

21.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

22.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

23.

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

24.

However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

Ellis, Havelock

25.

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

Syrus, Publilius

26.

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

Lucan, F. L.

27.

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

Shakespeare, William

28.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

29.

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

30.

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

Hull, Bobby

31.

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

Proverb

32.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

33.

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

Dyer, Wayne

34.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

35.

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

36.

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

Hugo, Victor

37.

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

Fuller, Thomas

38.

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

Churchill, Winston

39.

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

Fuller, Thomas

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Proverb, Malabar

43.

Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

Akhenaton

44.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

45.

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

46.

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

Edwards, Tryon

47.

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

Pope, Alexander

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

Boyes, John F.