Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Greg Evans

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Akhenaton

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

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

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bible

I used to store my anger and it affected my play. Now I get it out. I'm never rude to my playing partner. I'm very focused on the ball. Then it's over.

Alfredsson, Helen

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Sarnoff, David

10.

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

Lucan, F. L.

11.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

12.

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

13.

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

Aristotle

14.

In time of danger it is proper to be alarmed until danger be near at hand; but when we perceive that danger is near, we should oppose it as if we were not afraid.

Hitopadesa

15.

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

Hull, Bobby

16.

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.

Cherie Carter-Scott

17.

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.

18.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

19.

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

20.

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

Edwards, Tryon

21.

Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.

Baldwin, James

22.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

23.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

24.

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.

Colton, Charles Caleb

25.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

26.

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

27.

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

Buddha

28.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

29.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

30.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.

Buddha

31.

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

32.

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

Emily Dickinson

33.

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.

34.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Fuller, Thomas

38.

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

39.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

40.

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

41.

Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.

Buddha

42.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

43.

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.

44.

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

45.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

46.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

47.

Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.