Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

Quincey, Thomas De

2.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

3.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

4.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

5.

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.

6.

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

7.

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

8.

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

Wallenda, Karl

9.

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

Bible

10.

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

11.

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

Ruskin, John

12.

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

Lucan, F. L.

13.

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

14.

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

Proverb, Malabar

15.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

16.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

17.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

18.

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

Shakespeare, William

19.

Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.

Greer, Germaine

20.

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

21.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

22.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

23.

The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

25.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

26.

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

Churchill, Winston

27.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

28.

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

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

Tupper, Martin

31.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

32.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

33.

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

Pope, Alexander

34.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

35.

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.

36.

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

37.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

38.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

39.

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

40.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

41.

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

42.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

43.

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

Dyer, Wayne

44.

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

Joubert, Joseph

45.

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

Horace

46.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

47.

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

48.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

49.

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.

50.

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.

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