Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Shaw, George Bernard

The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression. [Proverbs 19:11]

Bible

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.

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

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

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.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Fuller, Thomas

We are confronted by a first danger, the destructiveness of applied atomic energy. And then we are confronted by a second danger, that we do not enough appreciate the first danger.

Swing, Raymond G.

10.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.

Buddha

11.

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

Quarles, Francis

12.

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

Fuller, Thomas

13.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

14.

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.

15.

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

Pope, Alexander

16.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

17.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

18.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

19.

The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

Landor, Walter Savage

20.

The best answer to anger is silence.

21.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

22.

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

Boyes, John F.

23.

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

Shakespeare, William

24.

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

Webster, John

25.

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

Floyd, Pink

26.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

27.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

28.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

29.

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

Fuller, Thomas

30.

The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.

Ruskin, John

31.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

32.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

33.

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

Bible

34.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

35.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

36.

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.

37.

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

Hull, Bobby

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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

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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

40.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

41.

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

Bible

42.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

43.

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

Hugo, Victor

44.

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

Churchill, Winston

45.

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

46.

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

Dyer, Wayne

47.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

48.

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

Proverb, Malabar

49.

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

50.

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