Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Maxim, Samurai

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

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

Fuller, Thomas

2.

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

3.

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

Hugo, Victor

4.

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

Russell, Bertrand

5.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

6.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

7.

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.

8.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

9.

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

Shakespeare, William

10.

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

Plato

11.

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.

12.

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

Aristotle

13.

When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out -- because that's what's inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside.

Dyer, Wayne

14.

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

Edwards, Tryon

15.

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

Bible

16.

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.

17.

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

Fuller, Thomas

18.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

19.

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

Seneca

20.

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

21.

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

Dyer, Wayne

22.

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

Mario Puzo

23.

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

Quincey, Thomas De

24.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

25.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

26.

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

Lucan, F. L.

27.

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

Churchill, Winston

28.

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.

29.

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

Bible

30.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

31.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

32.

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

Secker, Thomas

33.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

34.

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

35.

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

Ellis, Havelock

36.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

37.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

38.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

39.

All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.

Paley, Babe

40.

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

Buddha

41.

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

Mckay, David O.

42.

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

Angelis, Barbara De

43.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

44.

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

Renard, Jules

45.

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

Bible

46.

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

Bible

47.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

48.

The best answer to anger is silence.

49.

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

50.

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.