Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Halifax, Edward F.

Best Quotes about Anger

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

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.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Syrus, Publilius

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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.

Erica Eisdorfer

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

11.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

12.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

16.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

17.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

18.

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

Boyes, John F.

19.

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

Mckay, David O.

20.

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

Bible

21.

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

Fuller, Thomas

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

25.

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

Laurence J. Peter

26.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

27.

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

28.

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

Akhenaton

29.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

30.

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

Seneca

31.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

32.

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

33.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

34.

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

35.

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

36.

What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you.

Dyer, Wayne

37.

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

Proverb

38.

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

39.

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

Shenstone, William

40.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

41.

No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.

Brown, John Mason

42.

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

43.

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

Horace

44.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

45.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

46.

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

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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

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.

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

Proverb

50.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis