Motivational Quotes

Anger

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

- Chapman, George

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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

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.

Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.

Mckay, David O.

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.

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

Edwards, Tryon

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

10.

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

11.

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

Buddha

12.

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

Proverb

13.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

14.

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

Fuller, Thomas

15.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

16.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

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.

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

Wallenda, Karl

19.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

20.

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

Floyd, Pink

21.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

22.

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

23.

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

Plato

24.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

25.

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

26.

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

Bible

27.

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

28.

Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

Seneca

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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

30.

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

Shakespeare, William

32.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

33.

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

Churchill, Winston

34.

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

Laurence J. Peter

35.

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

Bible

36.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

37.

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

38.

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

39.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

40.

It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and angry woman. [Proverbs 21:19]

Bible

41.

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

Bacon, Francis

42.

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

Boyes, John F.

43.

Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.

Antonius, Marcus

44.

I have seen a peaceful expression turn to anger as fast as a whip cracks, and so the look on the face might mean less than what it seems to be.

Erica Eisdorfer

45.

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

Sarnoff, David

46.

The best answer to anger is silence.

47.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

48.

Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

Quarles, Francis

49.

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

Freud, Sigmund

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It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.

Colton, Charles Caleb