Motivational Quotes

Anger

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Boyes, John F.

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

Sarnoff, David

In time of danger it is proper to be alarmed until danger be near at hand; but when we perceive that danger is near, we should oppose it as if we were not afraid.

Hitopadesa

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.

Baldwin, James

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.

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

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

Shaw, George Bernard

10.

Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. [Ecclesiastes 7:9]

Bible

11.

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

12.

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

Shakespeare, William

13.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

14.

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

Russell, Bertrand

15.

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

16.

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.

17.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

18.

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

Plato

19.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

20.

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

Greg Evans

21.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.

Buddha

22.

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

23.

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

Bacon, Francis

24.

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

25.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

26.

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

Bible

27.

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.

28.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

29.

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

Quincey, Thomas De

30.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

31.

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

Renard, Jules

32.

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.

33.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

34.

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

Mckay, David O.

35.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

36.

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

37.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

38.

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

39.

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

Webster, John

40.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

41.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

42.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

43.

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

44.

The best answer to anger is silence.

45.

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

46.

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

Hull, Bobby

47.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

48.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

49.

A wave of anger washed over me, anger against myself, at my age at the time, that stupid lyrically age, when a man is too great a riddle to himself to be interested in the riddles outside himself and when other people are mere walking mirrors in which he is amazed to find his own emotions, his own worth.

Kundera, Milan

50.

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

Shakespeare, William