Motivational Quotes

Anger

He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.

- Magnus, Saint Albertus

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

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

Webster, John

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

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

Plato

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

Bible

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

Aurelius, Marcus

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

In time of danger it is proper to be alarmed until danger be near at hand; but when we perceive that danger is near, we should oppose it as if we were not afraid.

Hitopadesa

10.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

11.

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

Fuller, Thomas

12.

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

Hull, Bobby

13.

Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.

Henry Ward Beecher

14.

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

15.

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

Churchill, Winston

16.

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

17.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

18.

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

Mizner, Wilson

19.

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

20.

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

Akhenaton

21.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

22.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

23.

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

24.

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.

25.

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

Bible

26.

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

Dickinson, Emily

27.

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

28.

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

Buddha

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Fuller, Thomas

32.

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

Proverb

33.

What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you.

Dyer, Wayne

34.

The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.

Freud, Sigmund

35.

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

36.

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

Bible

37.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

38.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Angelou, Maya

39.

A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied with small gains, which will come by creative adaptations.

I Ching

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.

To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.

Watts, Alan W.

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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.

43.

Doomed are the hotheads! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, I'm sorry.

Schuller, Robert H.

44.

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.

45.

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

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The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.

Greer, Germaine

49.

Danger -- if you meet it promptly and without flinching -- you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Churchill, Winston

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When the danger is past God is cheated.