Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

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Best Quotes about Anger

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.

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

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

Seneca

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

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

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

Angelis, Barbara De

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

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

10.

Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.

Laurence J. Peter

11.

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

Bible

12.

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

Sarnoff, David

13.

To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.

Watts, Alan W.

14.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

15.

I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.

Maxine Waters

16.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

17.

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

18.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

19.

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

20.

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

Shenstone, William

21.

No one is as angry as the person who is wrong.

Proverb

22.

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

Wallenda, Karl

23.

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

Proverb

24.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

25.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

26.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

27.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

28.

The broad general rule is that a man is about as big as the things that make him angry.

29.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

30.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

31.

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.

32.

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

33.

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

34.

There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.

Francis De Sales, St.

35.

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

36.

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

Aurelius, Marcus

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