Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Edwards, Tryon

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Proverb

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

A wave of anger washed over me, anger against myself, at my age at the time, that stupid lyrically age, when a man is too great a riddle to himself to be interested in the riddles outside himself and when other people are mere walking mirrors in which he is amazed to find his own emotions, his own worth.

Kundera, Milan

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

Harris, Sidney J.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself:'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.'When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.

Epictetus

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Bible

10.

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

11.

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

Epictetus

12.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

13.

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

Dyer, Wayne

14.

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

Seneca

15.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

16.

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

Quarles, Francis

17.

Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.

Beecher, Henry Ward

18.

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Syrus, Publilius

23.

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

Bacon, Francis

24.

All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.

Paley, Babe

25.

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

Boyes, John F.

26.

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

Churchill, Winston

27.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

28.

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

29.

I have seen a peaceful expression turn to anger as fast as a whip cracks, and so the look on the face might mean less than what it seems to be.

Erica Eisdorfer

30.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

31.

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

Ellis, Havelock

32.

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

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.

It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and angry woman. [Proverbs 21:19]

Bible

35.

The best answer to anger is silence.

36.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

37.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

38.

Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.

Greer, Germaine

39.

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

Gracian, Baltasar

40.

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

41.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

42.

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

Fuller, Thomas

43.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

44.

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

Hull, Bobby

45.

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

Mizner, Wilson

46.

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

Fuller, Thomas

47.

The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

48.

The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence.

Beecher, Henry Ward

49.

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

50.

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