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

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

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

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Bible

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

Proverb

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

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

Bible

10.

Anger is one letter short of danger, Greatest remedy for anger is delay

11.

He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.

Magnus, Saint Albertus

12.

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

13.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

14.

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

15.

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

Shakespeare, William

16.

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

17.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

18.

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.

19.

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

20.

Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.

Greer, Germaine

21.

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

Joubert, Joseph

22.

I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

Colby, Frank Moore

23.

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

24.

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

Bible

25.

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

Sarnoff, David

26.

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

27.

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

28.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

29.

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

30.

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

Wallenda, Karl

31.

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

Baldwin, James

32.

I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

Barton, Clara

33.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

34.

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

35.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

36.

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

37.

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

Greg Evans

38.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

39.

The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.

Ruskin, John

40.

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

41.

Anger makes dull men witty -- but it keeps them poor.

Bacon, Francis

42.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

43.

Stay out of the road, if you want to grow old.

Floyd, Pink

44.

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

Proverb, Malabar

45.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

46.

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

47.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

48.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

49.

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

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

Fuller, Thomas