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

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

Fuller, Thomas

Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.

Henry, M.

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

Sarnoff, David

It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and angry woman. [Proverbs 21:19]

Bible

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

Proverb

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

Angelou, Maya

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

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

10.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

11.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

12.

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

Fuller, Thomas

13.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

14.

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

Plato

15.

Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.

Shakespeare, William

16.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

17.

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

18.

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

Shakespeare, William

19.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

20.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

21.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

22.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

23.

Anger is one letter short of danger, Greatest remedy for anger is delay

24.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

25.

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

Wallenda, Karl

26.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

27.

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

Edwards, Tryon

28.

Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid at the back of reason, to come to the front when bidden. For once it begins to take control of the mind, it calls just what it does cruelly.

Curtis, George William

29.

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.

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Ellis, Havelock

33.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

34.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

35.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

36.

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

Fuller, Thomas

37.

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

Epictetus

38.

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

Bible

39.

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

Greer, Germaine

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Mckay, David O.

43.

Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, everyone should be serene, slow-pulsed and calm.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

44.

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

45.

I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they

White, Elwyn Brooks

46.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

47.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

48.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

49.

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