Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

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

Shenstone, William

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Churchill, Winston

By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned; By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned.

Pope, Alexander

The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

Renard, Jules

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

Wallenda, Karl

10.

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

11.

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

12.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

13.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

14.

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

15.

Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.

Henry Ward Beecher

16.

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

17.

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

18.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

19.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

20.

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

21.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

22.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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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

24.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

25.

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

Horace

26.

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

Hugo, Victor

27.

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

Edwards, Tryon

28.

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

Plato

29.

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

Proverb

30.

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

Seneca

31.

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

Emily Dickinson

32.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

33.

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

Dickinson, Emily

34.

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

Shakespeare, William

35.

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

Bible

36.

Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

37.

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

Thurber, James

38.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

39.

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

40.

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

Syrus, Publilius

41.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

42.

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

Bible

43.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

44.

Do not suppress it-that would hurt you inside. Do not express it-this would not only hurt you inside, it would cause ripples in your surroundings. What you do is transform it.

Pilgrim, Peace

45.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

46.

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

47.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

48.

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

Proverb

49.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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