Motivational Quotes

Anger

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

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

Shakespeare, William

2.

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

3.

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

4.

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

Laurence J. Peter

5.

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

Thurber, James

6.

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

Renard, Jules

7.

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

8.

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

9.

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

Buddha

10.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

11.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

12.

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

13.

He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.

Magnus, Saint Albertus

14.

It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and angry woman. [Proverbs 21:19]

Bible

15.

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

Hull, Bobby

16.

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

17.

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.

18.

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

Shenstone, William

19.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

20.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

21.

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

Mckay, David O.

22.

The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life.

Maxim, Samurai

23.

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

Quarles, Francis

24.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

25.

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

Webster, John

26.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

27.

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

Fuller, Thomas

28.

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

29.

I lose my temper, but it's all over in a minute, said the student. So is the hydrogen bomb, I replied. But think of the damage it produces!

Sweeting, George

30.

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

Fuller, Thomas

31.

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

Secker, Thomas

32.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

33.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

34.

Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.

Mario Puzo

35.

Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.

Shakespeare, William

36.

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

37.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.

Buddha

38.

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

Sarnoff, David

39.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

40.

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

41.

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

Churchill, Winston

42.

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

Gracian, Baltasar

43.

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

Dyer, Wayne

44.

Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

45.

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

Bible

46.

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.

47.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

48.

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

Mizner, Wilson

49.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

50.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott