Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

2.

Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

Akhenaton

3.

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

4.

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

5.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

Bierce, Ambrose

6.

The best answer to anger is silence.

7.

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

Bible

8.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

9.

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

Mckay, David O.

10.

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

11.

One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.

Syrus, Publilius

12.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

13.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

14.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

15.

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

Bible

16.

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

17.

When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other.

Gaulle, Charles De

18.

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

Fuller, Thomas

19.

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

Dickinson, Emily

20.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

21.

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

Wallenda, Karl

22.

I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

Colby, Frank Moore

23.

It is better to do thine own duty, however lacking in merit, than to do that of another, even though efficiently. It is better to die doing one's own duty, for to do the duty of another is fraught with danger.

Bhagavad Gita

24.

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

Bible

25.

The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life.

Maxim, Samurai

26.

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

Greer, Germaine

27.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

28.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

29.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

30.

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

Gracian, Baltasar

31.

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

32.

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

Shakespeare, William

33.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

34.

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

35.

Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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.

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.

38.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

39.

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

40.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

41.

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

Shenstone, William

42.

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.

43.

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

Greg Evans

44.

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

Hugo, Victor

45.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

46.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

47.

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

Angelou, Maya

48.

The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.

Long, Haniel

49.

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

50.

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

Proverb