Motivational Quotes

Anger

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Anger

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

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

Edwards, Tryon

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

Proverb, Malabar

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

Shakespeare, William

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

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

Angelis, Barbara De

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

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

Mario Puzo

10.

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

11.

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

Webster, John

12.

Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.

Hillard, G. S.

13.

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.

14.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

15.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

16.

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

17.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

18.

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

Greer, Germaine

19.

I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.

Maxine Waters

20.

Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.

Fuller, Thomas

21.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

22.

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

23.

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

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Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.

Fuller, Thomas

25.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

26.

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

Bible

27.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

28.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

29.

The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

30.

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

Mckay, David O.

31.

By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned; By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned.

Pope, Alexander

32.

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

33.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

34.

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

Emily Dickinson

35.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

36.

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

Angelou, Maya

37.

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

Boyes, John F.

38.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

39.

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

Secker, Thomas

40.

The broad general rule is that a man is about as big as the things that make him angry.

41.

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

Plato

42.

Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.

Wallenda, Karl

43.

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

Renard, Jules

44.

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

45.

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

Epictetus

46.

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

Proverb

47.

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

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We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

Aristotle

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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

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh