Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.

Halifax, Edward F.

2.

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.

3.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

4.

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

Boyes, John F.

5.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

6.

My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. [James 1:19-20]

Bible

7.

The best answer to anger is silence.

8.

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

Bacon, Francis

9.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

10.

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

Horace

11.

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

12.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

13.

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

Secker, Thomas

14.

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

15.

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

Bible

16.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

17.

Anyone can become angry -- that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way -- this is not easy.

Aristotle

18.

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

Laurence J. Peter

19.

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

20.

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

21.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

22.

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

Bible

23.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

24.

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

Shakespeare, William

25.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

26.

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

Bible

27.

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

Dickinson, Emily

28.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Proverb

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.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

35.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

36.

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

Proverb

37.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

41.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

42.

When you meet up with a disagreeable person, never allow yourself to be upset. Say to yourself,if a dowdy like that can stand himself all his life, surely I can stand him for a few minutes.

43.

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

Fuller, Thomas

44.

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

Greg Evans

45.

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.

46.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Malcolm X

47.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

48.

Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.

Cervantes, Miguel De

49.

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

Sarnoff, David

50.

Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.

Hillard, G. S.