Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Plato

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

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

2.

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

Proverb

3.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

4.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

5.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

6.

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

Harris, Sidney J.

7.

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

Fuller, Thomas

8.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

9.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

10.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

11.

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

Bible

12.

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

Hull, Bobby

13.

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.

14.

I used to store my anger and it affected my play. Now I get it out. I'm never rude to my playing partner. I'm very focused on the ball. Then it's over.

Alfredsson, Helen

15.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

16.

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

Proverb, Malabar

17.

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

Dickinson, Emily

18.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

19.

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

Greg Evans

20.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Webster, John

24.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

25.

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

Floyd, Pink

26.

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

Epictetus

27.

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.

28.

Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south.

Shakespeare, William

29.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

30.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

31.

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.

32.

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

33.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

34.

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

35.

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

36.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

37.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

38.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

39.

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

40.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

41.

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

Laurence J. Peter

42.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

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

Bible

44.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

45.

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

Thurber, James

46.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

47.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Malcolm X

48.

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.

49.

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

Bible

50.

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