Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

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

Bible

2.

The best answer to anger is silence.

3.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

4.

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

5.

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

6.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

7.

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

8.

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

9.

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

Thurber, James

10.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

11.

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

Shakespeare, William

12.

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

13.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

14.

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

Greer, Germaine

15.

A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied with small gains, which will come by creative adaptations.

I Ching

16.

When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

Jefferson, Thomas

17.

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.

18.

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

Quarles, Francis

19.

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

Bacon, Francis

20.

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

21.

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

George, David Lloyd

22.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

23.

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

Hugo, Victor

24.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Angelou, Maya

25.

He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.

Proverb

26.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

27.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

28.

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

Bible

29.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

30.

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

Greg Evans

31.

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

Secker, Thomas

32.

The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

Landor, Walter Savage

33.

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.

34.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

35.

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

Seneca

36.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

37.

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

38.

What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you.

Dyer, Wayne

39.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

40.

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

Lucan, F. L.

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.

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

Bible

43.

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

44.

Stay out of the road, if you want to grow old.

Floyd, Pink

45.

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

Epictetus

46.

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

47.

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

Emily Dickinson

48.

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

Hull, Bobby

49.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

50.

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