Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Best Quotes about Anger

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

Clarendon

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

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Mckay, David O.

The best answer to anger is silence.

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

Seneca

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

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

10.

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

11.

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

Webster, John

12.

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

Proverb

13.

Anger as soon as fed is dead; 'Tis starving makes it fat.

Dickinson, Emily

14.

A wave of anger washed over me, anger against myself, at my age at the time, that stupid lyrically age, when a man is too great a riddle to himself to be interested in the riddles outside himself and when other people are mere walking mirrors in which he is amazed to find his own emotions, his own worth.

Kundera, Milan

15.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

16.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

17.

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

18.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

19.

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.

20.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

21.

When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

Jefferson, Thomas

22.

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

Fuller, Thomas

23.

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

24.

Anger as soon as fed is dead- 'Tis starving makes it fat.

Emily Dickinson

25.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Quarles, Francis

26.

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

27.

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

28.

I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they

White, Elwyn Brooks

29.

As the whirlwind in its fury teareth up trees, and deformeth the face of nature, or as an earthquake in its convulsions overturneth whole cities; so the rage of an angry man throweth mischief around him.

Akhenaton

30.

There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.

Dyer, Wayne

31.

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

Plato

32.

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

Fuller, Thomas

33.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

34.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

35.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

36.

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

Shakespeare, William

37.

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

38.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

39.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

40.

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

Hull, Bobby

41.

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

42.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

43.

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

Shakespeare, William

44.

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

45.

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

46.

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

Colton, Charles Caleb

47.

However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

Ellis, Havelock

48.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

49.

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