Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Dyer, Wayne

Best Quotes about Anger

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

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

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

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

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

Bible

The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong.

Mizner, Wilson

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

Bible

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

10.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

11.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

12.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

13.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

14.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

15.

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.

16.

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

Secker, Thomas

17.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

18.

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

Proverb

19.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

20.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

Joubert, Joseph

21.

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

Shakespeare, William

22.

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

Bible

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Ellis, Havelock

26.

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

Harris, Sidney J.

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Lucan, F. L.

30.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

31.

Do not suppress it-that would hurt you inside. Do not express it-this would not only hurt you inside, it would cause ripples in your surroundings. What you do is transform it.

Pilgrim, Peace

32.

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

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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

34.

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

35.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Maxim, Samurai

37.

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

Emily Dickinson

38.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

39.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

40.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

41.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

42.

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

Angelou, Maya

43.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

44.

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

Seneca

45.

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

Thurber, James

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Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

47.

One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.

Syrus, Publilius

48.

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

49.

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

Hull, Bobby

50.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian