Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Mckay, David O.

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

The best answer to anger is silence.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

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

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

Maxim, Samurai

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Bible

10.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

11.

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

Floyd, Pink

12.

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

Dyer, Wayne

13.

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

Emily Dickinson

14.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

15.

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

16.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

17.

Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.

Wallenda, Karl

18.

Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.

Greg Evans

19.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

20.

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

Churchill, Winston

21.

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

Bible

22.

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

Bible

23.

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.

Cherie Carter-Scott

24.

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.

25.

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.

26.

It is better to do thine own duty, however lacking in merit, than to do that of another, even though efficiently. It is better to die doing one's own duty, for to do the duty of another is fraught with danger.

Bhagavad Gita

27.

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.

28.

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

Secker, Thomas

29.

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

Fuller, Thomas

30.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

31.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

36.

The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

37.

The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

38.

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

Bible

39.

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

Proverb

40.

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

Fuller, Thomas

41.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

42.

Anger makes dull men witty -- but it keeps them poor.

Bacon, Francis

43.

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

Hull, Bobby

44.

Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.

Baldwin, James

45.

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

Mckay, David O.

46.

Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.

Tupper, Martin

47.

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

Fuller, Thomas

48.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

49.

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.

50.

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