Motivational Quotes

Anger

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

- Machiavelli, Niccolo

Best Quotes about Anger

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

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Shakespeare, William

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

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

Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.

Hillard, G. S.

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

Hugo, Victor

10.

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

11.

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.

12.

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

13.

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

Shakespeare, William

14.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

15.

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.

Colton, Charles Caleb

16.

The best answer to anger is silence.

17.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

18.

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

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.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

21.

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

22.

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

Renard, Jules

23.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.

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

Bible

25.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

26.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

27.

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

28.

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

Proverb

29.

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

30.

The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances boldly to meet them head on. The weak man grows agitated. But the superior man stands up to fate, endures resolutely in his inner certainty If ignorant both

I Ching

31.

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

32.

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

Thurber, James

33.

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

Bible

34.

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

Ellis, Havelock

35.

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

Edwards, Tryon

36.

Anyone can become angry -- that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way -- this is not easy.

Aristotle

37.

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

Quarles, Francis

38.

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

39.

I lose my temper, but it's all over in a minute, said the student. So is the hydrogen bomb, I replied. But think of the damage it produces!

Sweeting, George

40.

There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.

Francis De Sales, St.

41.

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

Webster, John

42.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

43.

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

Mario Puzo

44.

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

Shenstone, William

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Boyes, John F.

48.

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

Bible

49.

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