Motivational Quotes

Anger

No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.

- Brown, John Mason

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

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

Wallenda, Karl

2.

Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.

Halifax, Edward F.

3.

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.

4.

When you meet up with a disagreeable person, never allow yourself to be upset. Say to yourself,if a dowdy like that can stand himself all his life, surely I can stand him for a few minutes.

5.

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

6.

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

Churchill, Winston

7.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

8.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

9.

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

Shenstone, William

10.

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

Angelou, Maya

11.

A soft answer truth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger. [Proverbs 15:1]

Bible

12.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

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

Bible

14.

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

15.

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

Seneca

16.

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

Edwards, Tryon

17.

Doomed are the hotheads! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, I'm sorry.

Schuller, Robert H.

18.

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

Freud, Sigmund

19.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

20.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

21.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

22.

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

Ruskin, John

23.

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

Laurence J. Peter

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Secker, Thomas

27.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

28.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

29.

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

30.

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

Syrus, Publilius

31.

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

32.

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

33.

Anger makes dull men witty -- but it keeps them poor.

Bacon, Francis

34.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

35.

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

Buddha

36.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

37.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

38.

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

Bible

39.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

40.

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

41.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

42.

If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wring, but the coals are.

Beecher, Henry Ward

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

46.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

47.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

48.

The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.