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

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

Epictetus

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

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

Freud, Sigmund

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

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

Hull, Bobby

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.

Cherie Carter-Scott

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

Bible

10.

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

11.

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

12.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

13.

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

Secker, Thomas

14.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

15.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

16.

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

Sarnoff, David

17.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

18.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

19.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

20.

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

21.

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

Laurence J. Peter

22.

I lose my temper, but it's all over in a minute, said the student. So is the hydrogen bomb, I replied. But think of the damage it produces!

Sweeting, George

23.

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

24.

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

Plato

25.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

26.

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.

27.

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

28.

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.

29.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

30.

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

31.

I used to store my anger and it affected my play. Now I get it out. I'm never rude to my playing partner. I'm very focused on the ball. Then it's over.

Alfredsson, Helen

32.

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

Emily Dickinson

33.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

34.

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

Buddha

35.

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

36.

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

37.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Quarles, Francis

38.

Anyone can become angry -- that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way -- this is not easy.

Aristotle

39.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

40.

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

Seneca

41.

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

Dyer, Wayne

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Dickinson, Emily

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

48.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

49.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

50.

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

Russell, Bertrand