Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Ellis, Havelock

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.

Francis De Sales, St.

2.

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

Fuller, Thomas

3.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

4.

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

Hull, Bobby

5.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

6.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

7.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

8.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

9.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

10.

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

Shakespeare, William

11.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

12.

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

13.

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

14.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

15.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

16.

Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

17.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

18.

By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned; By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned.

Pope, Alexander

19.

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

Russell, Bertrand

20.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

21.

Actually, the streets are quite safe today, it's the people on them who aren't.

22.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

23.

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

24.

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

Joubert, Joseph

25.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

26.

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

Bible

27.

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

28.

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

Bible

29.

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

Sarnoff, David

30.

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

Lucan, F. L.

31.

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

Mario Puzo

32.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

33.

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

Dyer, Wayne

34.

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

Bible

35.

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.

36.

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.

37.

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

Churchill, Winston

38.

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

Fuller, Thomas

39.

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

40.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

41.

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

42.

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

Edwards, Tryon

43.

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

44.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

45.

The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

46.

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

47.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.