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

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

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

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

Mckay, David O.

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

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Bierce, Ambrose

10.

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

11.

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.

12.

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

Sarnoff, David

13.

Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

Akhenaton

14.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

15.

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

Ruskin, John

16.

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

Aurelius, Marcus

17.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

18.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

19.

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

Dickinson, Emily

20.

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

21.

The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence.

Beecher, Henry Ward

22.

When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other.

Gaulle, Charles De

23.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

24.

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

Boyes, John F.

25.

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

26.

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

Horace

27.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

28.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

29.

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

Webster, John

30.

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

Hugo, Victor

31.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

32.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

33.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

34.

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

35.

When you meet up with a disagreeable person, never allow yourself to be upset. Say to yourself,if a dowdy like that can stand himself all his life, surely I can stand him for a few minutes.

36.

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

37.

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

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A wave of anger washed over me, anger against myself, at my age at the time, that stupid lyrically age, when a man is too great a riddle to himself to be interested in the riddles outside himself and when other people are mere walking mirrors in which he is amazed to find his own emotions, his own worth.

Kundera, Milan

39.

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

Ellis, Havelock

40.

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

Churchill, Winston

41.

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

42.

Actually, the streets are quite safe today, it's the people on them who aren't.

43.

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

Epictetus

44.

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.

45.

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

Seneca

46.

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

Wallenda, Karl

47.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

48.

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

Joan Lunden

49.

No one is as angry as the person who is wrong.

Proverb

50.

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

Plato