Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Francis De Sales, St.

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

2.

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

3.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

4.

Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.

Beecher, Henry Ward

5.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

6.

The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life.

Maxim, Samurai

7.

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

8.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

9.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

10.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

11.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

12.

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

Greer, Germaine

13.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

14.

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

Horace

15.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

16.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

17.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

18.

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.

19.

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

Bible

20.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

21.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

22.

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

Shakespeare, William

23.

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

Dyer, Wayne

24.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

25.

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.

26.

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

Bible

27.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

28.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

29.

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

30.

Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.

Henry, M.

31.

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

Plato

32.

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

Bible

33.

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

34.

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

35.

However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

Ellis, Havelock

36.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

37.

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

38.

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.

39.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

40.

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

41.

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

42.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

43.

We are confronted by a first danger, the destructiveness of applied atomic energy. And then we are confronted by a second danger, that we do not enough appreciate the first danger.

Swing, Raymond G.

44.

Don't play for safety -- it's the most dangerous thing in the world.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

45.

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

46.

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

Thurber, James

47.

I used to store my anger and it affected my play. Now I get it out. I'm never rude to my playing partner. I'm very focused on the ball. Then it's over.

Alfredsson, Helen

48.

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

49.

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

Seneca

50.

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

Epictetus