Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Mizner, Wilson

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Shaw, George Bernard

It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.

Riley, James Whitcomb

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

10.

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

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

Mizner, Wilson

12.

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

Floyd, Pink

13.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

Carlyle, Thomas

14.

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

Edwards, Tryon

15.

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

16.

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

Dyer, Wayne

17.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

18.

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

Thurber, James

19.

Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

Quarles, Francis

20.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

21.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

22.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

23.

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

Shenstone, William

24.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

25.

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

Renard, Jules

26.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

27.

Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. [Ecclesiastes 7:9]

Bible

28.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

29.

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

Secker, Thomas

30.

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

Churchill, Winston

31.

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.

32.

Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

33.

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.

34.

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

Gracian, Baltasar

35.

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

Bible

36.

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

37.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

38.

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

Webster, John

39.

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

Seneca

40.

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

Angelou, Maya

41.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

42.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

43.

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

44.

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

Hull, Bobby

45.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

46.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Fuller, Thomas

48.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

49.

Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, everyone should be serene, slow-pulsed and calm.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

50.

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