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

My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. [James 1:19-20]

Bible

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

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

Edwards, Tryon

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

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

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

Hull, Bobby

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

Thurber, James

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

Floyd, Pink

10.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

11.

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

Ruskin, John

12.

Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, everyone should be serene, slow-pulsed and calm.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

13.

When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out -- because that's what's inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside.

Dyer, Wayne

14.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

15.

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

Buddha

16.

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

Bible

17.

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

18.

A soft answer truth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger. [Proverbs 15:1]

Bible

19.

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

20.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

21.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

22.

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

23.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

24.

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

25.

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

Epictetus

26.

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

Syrus, Publilius

27.

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

Pope, Alexander

28.

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

Bible

29.

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

Akhenaton

30.

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

Proverb, Malabar

31.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

32.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

33.

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

Shenstone, William

34.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Lucan, F. L.

38.

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

Proverb

39.

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

40.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

41.

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

42.

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

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

Proverb

44.

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

Proverb

45.

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

Shakespeare, William

46.

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

Mario Puzo

47.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

48.

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

Churchill, Winston

49.

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

50.

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