Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

2.

A soft answer truth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger. [Proverbs 15:1]

Bible

3.

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

4.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

5.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

6.

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

7.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

8.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

9.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

10.

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

11.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

12.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

13.

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

Seneca

14.

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

Wallenda, Karl

15.

The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong.

Mizner, Wilson

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.

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.

18.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

19.

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

20.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

21.

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

Mckay, David O.

22.

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

Fuller, Thomas

23.

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

Dickinson, Emily

24.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

25.

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

Epictetus

26.

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

Bacon, Francis

27.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

28.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

29.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

30.

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

31.

Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

Quarles, Francis

32.

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

Aurelius, Marcus

33.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

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

Bible

35.

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

Greg Evans

36.

Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

37.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

38.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

39.

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

Buddha

40.

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

Hull, Bobby

41.

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

Fuller, Thomas

42.

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

Mario Puzo

43.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Proverb

44.

No one is as angry as the person who is wrong.

Proverb

45.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

46.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

47.

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

Hugo, Victor

48.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

49.

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

Bible

50.

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.