Motivational Quotes

Anger

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

- Chapman, George

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Bible

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

Baldwin, James

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Ruskin, John

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Proverb

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

Floyd, Pink

10.

I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

Colby, Frank Moore

11.

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

12.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Proverb

13.

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

Hull, Bobby

14.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

15.

There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.

Webster, John

16.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances boldly to meet them head on. The weak man grows agitated. But the superior man stands up to fate, endures resolutely in his inner certainty If ignorant both

I Ching

18.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

19.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

21.

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

22.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

23.

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

Russell, Bertrand

24.

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

Fuller, Thomas

25.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

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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

27.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

28.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

29.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

30.

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

Emily Dickinson

31.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

32.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

33.

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

Edwards, Tryon

34.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

35.

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

Quarles, Francis

36.

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.

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

40.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

41.

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

42.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

43.

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

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

Akhenaton

45.

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

Lucan, F. L.

46.

He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.

Magnus, Saint Albertus

47.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

48.

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

Boyes, John F.

49.

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.

50.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward