Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Anger

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

Hugo, Victor

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Proverb

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

Bible

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

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

Quarles, Francis

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

10.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

11.

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

Baldwin, James

12.

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

Bible

13.

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

Ruskin, John

14.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

15.

If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.

Epictetus

16.

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

17.

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.

18.

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

Floyd, Pink

19.

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.

20.

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

21.

Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.

Greg Evans

22.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

23.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

24.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

25.

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.

26.

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

27.

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

Bacon, Francis

28.

No one can make us angry. People can say and do things to us but it is still up to us as individuals to do what we want with our emotions in response to those things.

29.

It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.

Riley, James Whitcomb

30.

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

31.

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.

32.

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

33.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

34.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

35.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

36.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

37.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

38.

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

39.

Let not the sun go down upon your wrath. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

40.

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

Sarnoff, David

41.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

42.

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

43.

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

Shakespeare, William

44.

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

45.

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.

46.

Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.

Henry, M.

47.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

48.

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

49.

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

Fuller, Thomas

50.

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

Plato