Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Harris, Sidney J.

Best Quotes about Anger

There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.

Dyer, Wayne

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.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

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

Lucan, F. L.

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

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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

The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

Proverb, Malabar

10.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

11.

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

12.

Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

13.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

14.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

15.

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

16.

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

Bible

17.

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.

18.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

19.

Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.

Mario Puzo

20.

When you meet up with a disagreeable person, never allow yourself to be upset. Say to yourself,if a dowdy like that can stand himself all his life, surely I can stand him for a few minutes.

21.

If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself:'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.'When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.

Epictetus

22.

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

Wallenda, Karl

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Bible

26.

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

27.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

31.

Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.

Hillard, G. S.

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Hull, Bobby

36.

The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life.

Maxim, Samurai

37.

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

38.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

39.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

40.

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

Bible

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.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

Joubert, Joseph

43.

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

44.

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

Proverb

45.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

46.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.