Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Cervantes, Miguel De

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Plato

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

George, David Lloyd

The best answer to anger is silence.

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.

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.

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

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

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

10.

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.

11.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

12.

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

Floyd, Pink

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Churchill, Winston

16.

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

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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

18.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

19.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

20.

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

Greer, Germaine

21.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

We are confronted by a first danger, the destructiveness of applied atomic energy. And then we are confronted by a second danger, that we do not enough appreciate the first danger.

Swing, Raymond G.

23.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.

Buddha

24.

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.

25.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

26.

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

Laurence J. Peter

27.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

28.

Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

Akhenaton

29.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

30.

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

Bible

31.

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

Sarnoff, David

32.

Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

Proverb, Malabar

33.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

34.

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

35.

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

Hull, Bobby

36.

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

Secker, Thomas

37.

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.

38.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

39.

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

Dickinson, Emily

40.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

41.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

42.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

Boyes, John F.

44.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

48.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

49.

No one is as angry as the person who is wrong.