Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Bierce, Ambrose

Best Quotes about Anger

The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence.

Beecher, Henry Ward

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

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

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

Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

10.

The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.

Ruskin, John

11.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

12.

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

13.

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

Fuller, Thomas

14.

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

Proverb

15.

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

Fuller, Thomas

17.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

18.

Actually, the streets are quite safe today, it's the people on them who aren't.

19.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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

21.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

22.

The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

23.

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

Hull, Bobby

24.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

25.

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

Mario Puzo

26.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

27.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

28.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

29.

As the whirlwind in its fury teareth up trees, and deformeth the face of nature, or as an earthquake in its convulsions overturneth whole cities; so the rage of an angry man throweth mischief around him.

Akhenaton

30.

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

Plato

31.

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

Bible

32.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

33.

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

Secker, Thomas

34.

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

Greer, Germaine

35.

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

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Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

37.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

38.

Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.

Buddha

39.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

40.

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

41.

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.

42.

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.

43.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Angelou, Maya

44.

Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. [Ecclesiastes 7:9]

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45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

48.

The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them. [Proverbs 12:6]

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49.

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

50.

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

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