Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Laurence J. Peter

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Bible

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Akhenaton

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Fuller, Thomas

Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.

Babylonian Talmud

10.

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

11.

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

Wallenda, Karl

12.

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

Fuller, Thomas

13.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

14.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

15.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

16.

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.

17.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

18.

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

Quincey, Thomas De

19.

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.

20.

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

21.

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

Lucan, F. L.

22.

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

23.

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

Shaw, George Bernard

24.

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

25.

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

Churchill, Winston

26.

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

Proverb

27.

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

28.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

29.

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

Mario Puzo

30.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

31.

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

Edwards, Tryon

32.

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.

33.

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

Pope, Alexander

34.

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

35.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

36.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

37.

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

Buddha

38.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

39.

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

Gracian, Baltasar

40.

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

Bible

41.

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

Shakespeare, William

42.

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

43.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

44.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

45.

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

Shakespeare, William

46.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

47.

The best answer to anger is silence.

48.

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

Bible

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.

He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

Plato