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

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

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Ruskin, John

I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they

White, Elwyn Brooks

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

Bible

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Boyes, John F.

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

Joan Lunden

10.

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

Fuller, Thomas

11.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

12.

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

Dyer, Wayne

13.

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

Greer, Germaine

14.

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

15.

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

Epictetus

16.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

17.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

18.

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

Thurber, James

19.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

20.

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

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Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

Quincey, Thomas De

22.

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

23.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

24.

He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.

Magnus, Saint Albertus

25.

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

26.

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.

27.

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

Bible

28.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

30.

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

Shenstone, William

31.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Bible

36.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

37.

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

38.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

39.

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

George, David Lloyd

40.

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

Buddha

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