Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Anger

When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Shenstone, William

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

Quincey, Thomas De

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

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

Hull, Bobby

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

Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid at the back of reason, to come to the front when bidden. For once it begins to take control of the mind, it calls just what it does cruelly.

Curtis, George William

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

10.

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

Lucan, F. L.

11.

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

12.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

13.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

14.

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

Bible

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Greg Evans

18.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

19.

Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

20.

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

21.

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

22.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

23.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

24.

Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.

Shakespeare, William

25.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

26.

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

Bible

27.

Stay out of the road, if you want to grow old.

Floyd, Pink

28.

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

Bible

29.

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

30.

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

Quarles, Francis

31.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

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Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.

Hillard, G. S.

36.

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

Fuller, Thomas

37.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

38.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

39.

The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life.

Maxim, Samurai

40.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

41.

Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much; such men are dangerous. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

42.

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

Bible

43.

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

Hugo, Victor

44.

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

45.

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.

46.

When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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

48.

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

Fuller, Thomas

49.

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

Proverb

50.

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

Angelis, Barbara De