Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Anger

Whenever you get red in the face, whenever you raise your voice, whenever you get hot under the collar or angry, rebellious or negative in spirit, then know that the spirit of God is leaving you and the spirit of Satan is beginning to take over.

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

Mario Puzo

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

Secker, Thomas

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

Akhenaton

Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.

Tupper, Martin

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

Bible

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

Thurber, James

The best answer to anger is silence.

10.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

11.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

12.

Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.

Mckay, David O.

13.

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

Mizner, Wilson

14.

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

Bacon, Francis

15.

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

Edwards, Tryon

16.

Nothing is so exhilarating in life as to be shot at with no result.

Churchill, Winston

17.

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

Boyes, John F.

18.

There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.

Webster, John

19.

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

Bible

20.

I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

Colby, Frank Moore

21.

I lose my temper, but it's all over in a minute, said the student. So is the hydrogen bomb, I replied. But think of the damage it produces!

Sweeting, George

22.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

23.

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

Ruskin, John

24.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

25.

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

Bible

26.

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

Shakespeare, William

27.

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

Dyer, Wayne

28.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

29.

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

Greg Evans

30.

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

31.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

33.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

34.

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

Proverb

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 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

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He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

Plato

38.

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid at the back of reason, to come to the front when bidden. For once it begins to take control of the mind, it calls just what it does cruelly.

Curtis, George William

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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

41.

When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out -- because that's what's inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside.

Dyer, Wayne

42.

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

Bible

43.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

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Every man is his own chief enemy.