Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

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

2.

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

Proverb

3.

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

Secker, Thomas

4.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

5.

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

Laurence J. Peter

6.

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

7.

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

Bible

8.

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

Boyes, John F.

9.

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

Proverb

10.

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.

11.

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

Greg Evans

12.

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

13.

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

Proverb

14.

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

15.

I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

Barton, Clara

16.

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

Akhenaton

17.

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

Lucan, F. L.

18.

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

Bible

19.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

20.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

21.

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

Dyer, Wayne

22.

The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life.

Maxim, Samurai

23.

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

24.

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

Plato

25.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

26.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

27.

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

28.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

29.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

30.

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

Floyd, Pink

31.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

32.

Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

33.

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

George, David Lloyd

34.

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.

35.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

36.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Angelou, Maya

37.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

38.

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

Hugo, Victor

39.

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

40.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

41.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

42.

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

Aristotle

43.

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

44.

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

Churchill, Winston

45.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

46.

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

Dickinson, Emily

47.

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