Motivational Quotes

Anger

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Webster, John

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

Bible

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

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

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

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

10.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

11.

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

12.

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

Dyer, Wayne

13.

I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.

Maxine Waters

14.

In time of danger it is proper to be alarmed until danger be near at hand; but when we perceive that danger is near, we should oppose it as if we were not afraid.

Hitopadesa

15.

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

Churchill, Winston

16.

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.

17.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

18.

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.

19.

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

Syrus, Publilius

20.

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

Epictetus

21.

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

22.

Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.

Tupper, Martin

23.

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

Angelou, Maya

24.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

25.

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

Edwards, Tryon

26.

Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.

Antonius, Marcus

27.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

28.

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

Bible

29.

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

30.

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

Proverb, Malabar

31.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

Joubert, Joseph

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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.

35.

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

36.

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

Pope, Alexander

37.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

38.

As the whirlwind in its fury teareth up trees, and deformeth the face of nature, or as an earthquake in its convulsions overturneth whole cities; so the rage of an angry man throweth mischief around him.

Akhenaton

39.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

40.

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

Bible

41.

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

42.

Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

43.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

44.

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

Fuller, Thomas

45.

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

46.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

47.

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

Laurence J. Peter

48.

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

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