Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

Sarnoff, David

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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.

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

Quarles, Francis

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

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

10.

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

11.

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

Bible

12.

The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances boldly to meet them head on. The weak man grows agitated. But the superior man stands up to fate, endures resolutely in his inner certainty If ignorant both

I Ching

13.

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

Fuller, Thomas

14.

I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they

White, Elwyn Brooks

15.

Anger is one letter short of danger, Greatest remedy for anger is delay

16.

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

17.

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

Proverb

18.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

19.

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

Webster, John

20.

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.

21.

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

22.

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

Edwards, Tryon

23.

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

Buddha

24.

There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.

Francis De Sales, St.

25.

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

Bible

26.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

27.

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

Horace

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.

If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.

Epictetus

30.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

31.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

32.

The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.

Freud, Sigmund

33.

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

Dickinson, Emily

34.

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

Dyer, Wayne

35.

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

Lucan, F. L.

36.

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

Hugo, Victor

37.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

38.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

39.

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

Ruskin, John

40.

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

41.

The best answer to anger is silence.

42.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

43.

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.

44.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

45.

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

46.

Sticks and stones may break your bones when there's anger to impart. Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart. Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

47.

Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.

Babylonian Talmud

48.

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

Shenstone, William

49.

The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.

George, David Lloyd

50.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward