Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Francis De Sales, St.

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Thurber, James

No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.

Brown, John Mason

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

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

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

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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

11.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

12.

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

Bible

13.

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.

14.

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

George, David Lloyd

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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

16.

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

Secker, Thomas

17.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

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

Bible

19.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

20.

Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

Halifax, Edward F.

21.

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

22.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

23.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.

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

25.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

26.

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.

Colton, Charles Caleb

27.

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

Hugo, Victor

28.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

29.

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

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The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

Colton, Charles Caleb

31.

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

Greg Evans

32.

Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

Proverb, Malabar

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

36.

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.

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Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

38.

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

Shenstone, William

39.

Anger is one letter short of danger, Greatest remedy for anger is delay

40.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

41.

Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south.

Shakespeare, William

42.

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.

43.

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

44.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

45.

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

Mario Puzo

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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