Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Bible

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Fuller, Thomas

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

13.

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

Wallenda, Karl

14.

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

Bible

15.

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

Proverb

16.

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

Bible

17.

Danger -- if you meet it promptly and without flinching -- you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Churchill, Winston

18.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

19.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

20.

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.

21.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

22.

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.

23.

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

Russell, Bertrand

24.

All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.

Paley, Babe

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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

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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.

27.

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

Hull, Bobby

28.

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

Bacon, Francis

29.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

30.

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

Hugo, Victor

31.

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

Mario Puzo

32.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

33.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

34.

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.

35.

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

Mckay, David O.

36.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

37.

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

Proverb, Malabar

38.

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.

39.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

40.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

41.

A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied with small gains, which will come by creative adaptations.

I Ching

42.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

43.

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

44.

If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself:'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.'When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.

Epictetus

45.

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

Bible

46.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

47.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

48.

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

49.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

50.

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