Motivational Quotes

Anger

When danger approaches, sing to it.

- Proverb, Arabian

Best Quotes about Anger

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

The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances boldly to meet them head on. The weak man grows agitated. But the superior man stands up to fate, endures resolutely in his inner certainty If ignorant both

I Ching

The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

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

Mckay, David O.

No one is as angry as the person who is wrong.

Proverb

10.

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

11.

Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.

Baldwin, James

12.

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

13.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Proverb

14.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

15.

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

Bible

16.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

17.

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

Quarles, Francis

18.

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

19.

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

Horace

20.

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.

21.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

22.

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

23.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

24.

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

25.

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

Fuller, Thomas

26.

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

Bible

27.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

28.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

30.

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

31.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

32.

We are confronted by a first danger, the destructiveness of applied atomic energy. And then we are confronted by a second danger, that we do not enough appreciate the first danger.

Swing, Raymond G.

33.

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

Churchill, Winston

34.

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

Bible

35.

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

Shakespeare, William

36.

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

Aristotle

37.

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

38.

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.

39.

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.

40.

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

41.

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

42.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

43.

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.

44.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

45.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

46.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

47.

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

Edwards, Tryon