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

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

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

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

Dyer, Wayne

Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.

Baldwin, James

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

Emily Dickinson

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

Epictetus

By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned; By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned.

Pope, Alexander

10.

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

11.

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

Maxim, Samurai

12.

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

Bible

13.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

Joubert, Joseph

14.

Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south.

Shakespeare, William

15.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

16.

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

17.

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

Shakespeare, William

18.

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.

19.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

20.

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

21.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

22.

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

Bible

23.

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

Hull, Bobby

24.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

25.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

26.

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

27.

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

Secker, Thomas

28.

The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.

George, David Lloyd

29.

Danger -- if you meet it promptly and without flinching -- you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Churchill, Winston

30.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Dyer, Wayne

34.

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

35.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

36.

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

Plato

37.

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

38.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

39.

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

Bible

40.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

41.

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

42.

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

Aurelius, Marcus

43.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

44.

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.

Long, Haniel

46.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

47.

Sticks and stones may break your bones when there's anger to impart. Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart. Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

48.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

49.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

50.

The best answer to anger is silence.