Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Cherie Carter-Scott

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

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

2.

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

Fuller, Thomas

3.

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

Proverb

4.

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

Wallenda, Karl

5.

However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

Ellis, Havelock

6.

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

Hull, Bobby

7.

Scornful men bring a city into a snare, but wise men turn away wrath. [Proverbs 29:8]

Bible

8.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

9.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

10.

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.

11.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Shakespeare, William

15.

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

16.

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

Shenstone, William

17.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

18.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

19.

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

20.

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

Shakespeare, William

21.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

22.

Don't play for safety -- it's the most dangerous thing in the world.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

23.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

24.

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

Shakespeare, William

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.

When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out -- because that's what's inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside.

Dyer, Wayne

27.

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

Dickinson, Emily

28.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

29.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

30.

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.

Fuller, Thomas

31.

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

Ruskin, John

32.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.

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

34.

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

Dyer, Wayne

35.

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

36.

Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.

Tupper, Martin

37.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

38.

It is better to do thine own duty, however lacking in merit, than to do that of another, even though efficiently. It is better to die doing one's own duty, for to do the duty of another is fraught with danger.

Bhagavad Gita

39.

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.

40.

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

Floyd, Pink

41.

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

Mckay, David O.

42.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

43.

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

Proverb

44.

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

Boyes, John F.

45.

Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.

Mario Puzo

46.

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

Churchill, Winston

47.

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

48.

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

Fuller, Thomas

49.

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

Akhenaton

50.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.