Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Hull, Bobby

Best Quotes about Anger

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

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

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

Hugo, Victor

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

Bible

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned; By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned.

Pope, Alexander

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

10.

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.

11.

The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.

George, David Lloyd

12.

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

13.

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

Fuller, Thomas

14.

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

15.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

16.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

17.

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

Boyes, John F.

18.

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

19.

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

Proverb, Malabar

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Greer, Germaine

24.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

25.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

26.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

27.

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.

28.

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

Bible

29.

If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.

Epictetus

30.

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

Joubert, Joseph

31.

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

32.

Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south.

Shakespeare, William

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

36.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

37.

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

38.

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

Bible

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.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

41.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

42.

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.

43.

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

44.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

45.

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

46.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

47.

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

48.

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.

49.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

50.

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

Fuller, Thomas