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

1.

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

Bible

2.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

3.

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

Horace

4.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

5.

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.

6.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Malcolm X

7.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

8.

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

Bible

9.

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

Sarnoff, David

10.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

11.

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

12.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

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

14.

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

Buddha

15.

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

Bible

16.

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

Proverb

17.

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

Dyer, Wayne

18.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

19.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

20.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

21.

The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances boldly to meet them head on. The weak man grows agitated. But the superior man stands up to fate, endures resolutely in his inner certainty If ignorant both

I Ching

22.

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

Bible

23.

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

Plato

24.

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

Boyes, John F.

25.

Stay out of the road, if you want to grow old.

Floyd, Pink

26.

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

Seneca

27.

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

Shenstone, William

28.

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

Dickinson, Emily

29.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

30.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

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

Ellis, Havelock

32.

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

Bible

33.

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

34.

The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.

Lucan, F. L.

35.

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

Emily Dickinson

36.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

37.

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

Edwards, Tryon

38.

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

39.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

40.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

41.

The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.

Freud, Sigmund

42.

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