Motivational Quotes

Anger

When danger approaches, sing to it.

- Proverb, Arabian

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Thurber, James

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

Angelis, Barbara De

It is better to do thine own duty, however lacking in merit, than to do that of another, even though efficiently. It is better to die doing one's own duty, for to do the duty of another is fraught with danger.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

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

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

10.

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

Bible

11.

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

Edwards, Tryon

12.

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

13.

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

14.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

15.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

16.

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

Horace

17.

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

18.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

19.

The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.

Freud, Sigmund

20.

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

21.

He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

Plato

22.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

23.

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

Bible

24.

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

Hugo, Victor

25.

Anger makes dull men witty -- but it keeps them poor.

Bacon, Francis

26.

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

Shakespeare, William

27.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

28.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

29.

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

30.

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

31.

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

Epictetus

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Proverb, Malabar

35.

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

Ellis, Havelock

36.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

37.

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

Pope, Alexander

38.

I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

Colby, Frank Moore

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Proverb

42.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

43.

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.