Motivational Quotes

Anger

When danger approaches, sing to it.

- Proverb, Arabian

Best Quotes about Anger

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

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

Quincey, Thomas De

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

Clarendon

Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

Halifax, Edward F.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.

Long, Haniel

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

Bible

10.

If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself:'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.'When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.

Epictetus

11.

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

Edwards, Tryon

12.

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

Laurence J. Peter

13.

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

Webster, John

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.

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

Fuller, Thomas

16.

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

17.

Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.

Henry Ward Beecher

18.

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

Thurber, James

19.

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

Floyd, Pink

20.

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

Ellis, Havelock

21.

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

22.

Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

Quarles, Francis

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Seneca

26.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

27.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

28.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

29.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Dyer, Wayne

33.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

34.

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

Boyes, John F.

35.

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

36.

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.

37.

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

38.

A soft answer truth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger. [Proverbs 15:1]

Bible

39.

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

Shaw, George Bernard

40.

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.

41.

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

Syrus, Publilius

42.

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

Maxim, Samurai

43.

Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much; such men are dangerous. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

44.

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