Motivational Quotes

Anger

Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

- Halifax, Edward F.

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Churchill, Winston

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

As the whirlwind in its fury teareth up trees, and deformeth the face of nature, or as an earthquake in its convulsions overturneth whole cities; so the rage of an angry man throweth mischief around him.

Akhenaton

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

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.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Aurelius, Marcus

10.

Nothing is so exhilarating in life as to be shot at with no result.

Churchill, Winston

11.

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

12.

No one is as angry as the person who is wrong.

Proverb

13.

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

Edwards, Tryon

14.

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

Renard, Jules

15.

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

Baldwin, James

16.

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

17.

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

Quincey, Thomas De

18.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

19.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

20.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

21.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

22.

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.

23.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

24.

I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.

Maxine Waters

25.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

26.

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

Fuller, Thomas

27.

It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.

Riley, James Whitcomb

28.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

29.

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

30.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

31.

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

32.

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

Russell, Bertrand

33.

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

34.

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

Bible

35.

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

36.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

37.

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

38.

Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much; such men are dangerous. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

39.

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

40.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

41.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

42.

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

Proverb

43.

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

44.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

45.

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

46.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

47.

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

Shakespeare, William

48.

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

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I have seen a peaceful expression turn to anger as fast as a whip cracks, and so the look on the face might mean less than what it seems to be.