Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Anger

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

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

Hull, Bobby

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Gracian, Baltasar

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

The best answer to anger is silence.

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

10.

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

11.

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

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

Bible

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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

14.

Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.

Mckay, David O.

15.

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

Lucan, F. L.

16.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

17.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Proverb

18.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

19.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

20.

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

Emily Dickinson

21.

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

Edwards, Tryon

22.

I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

Colby, Frank Moore

23.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

24.

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

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

Bible

26.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

27.

What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you.

Dyer, Wayne

28.

Do not suppress it-that would hurt you inside. Do not express it-this would not only hurt you inside, it would cause ripples in your surroundings. What you do is transform it.

Pilgrim, Peace

29.

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

31.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

32.

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

Renard, Jules

33.

There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.

Webster, John

34.

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

35.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

36.

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

Greg Evans

37.

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

Shaw, George Bernard

38.

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

39.

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

40.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

41.

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

Fuller, Thomas

42.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

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

Sarnoff, David

44.

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

45.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

46.

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

Fuller, Thomas

47.

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

Secker, Thomas

48.

Let not the sun go down upon your wrath. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

49.

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

Greer, Germaine

50.

The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances boldly to meet them head on. The weak man grows agitated. But the superior man stands up to fate, endures resolutely in his inner certainty If ignorant both

I Ching