Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

2.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Proverb

3.

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

Mizner, Wilson

4.

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

Renard, Jules

5.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

6.

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

Hugo, Victor

7.

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

Boyes, John F.

8.

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

9.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

10.

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

Lucan, F. L.

11.

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

Hull, Bobby

12.

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

Dyer, Wayne

13.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Proverb

17.

One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.

Syrus, Publilius

18.

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

Bible

19.

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

Plato

20.

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

21.

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

22.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

23.

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.

24.

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

25.

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

Greer, Germaine

26.

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

27.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

28.

Scornful men bring a city into a snare, but wise men turn away wrath. [Proverbs 29:8]

Bible

29.

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

Pope, Alexander

30.

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.

31.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

32.

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

Proverb, Malabar

33.

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.

34.

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

35.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

36.

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

Bible

37.

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

Churchill, Winston

38.

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

Quarles, Francis

39.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

40.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

41.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

42.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

43.

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

Ruskin, John

44.

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

45.

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

Emily Dickinson

46.

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

Epictetus

47.

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

Clarendon

48.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

49.

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

Thurber, James

50.

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

Fuller, Thomas