Motivational Quotes

Anger

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about Anger

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

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 the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

Maxim, Samurai

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

Bible

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

10.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.

Halifax, Edward F.

12.

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

Renard, Jules

13.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

14.

The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

15.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

16.

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

Greg Evans

17.

Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

18.

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

Proverb, Malabar

19.

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

Boyes, John F.

20.

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

21.

The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong.

Mizner, Wilson

22.

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

23.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

24.

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

25.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

26.

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

27.

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.

28.

There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.

Webster, John

29.

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

Floyd, Pink

30.

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

31.

Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.

Mckay, David O.

32.

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

Lucan, F. L.

33.

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.

34.

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

Seneca

35.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

36.

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

37.

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

38.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

39.

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

40.

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

41.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

42.

No one can make us angry. People can say and do things to us but it is still up to us as individuals to do what we want with our emotions in response to those things.

43.

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.

44.

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

Fuller, Thomas

45.

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

Churchill, Winston

46.

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

47.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

48.

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

Shakespeare, William

49.

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.

50.

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