Motivational Quotes

Anger

When the danger is past God is cheated.

- Proverb, Italian

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

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

Renard, Jules

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

Anger as soon as fed is dead; 'Tis starving makes it fat.

Dickinson, Emily

Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.

Henry, M.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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.

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

11.

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

Proverb

12.

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

Bible

13.

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

14.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

15.

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

Greer, Germaine

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Quarles, Francis

20.

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

21.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

22.

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

23.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

24.

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

Buddha

25.

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

26.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

27.

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.

28.

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

Secker, Thomas

29.

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

Thurber, James

30.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

31.

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.

32.

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

33.

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

Joan Lunden

34.

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

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.

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

Boyes, John F.

37.

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

Baldwin, James

38.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

39.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

40.

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

Fuller, Thomas

41.

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.

42.

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

43.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

44.

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.

45.

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

Syrus, Publilius

46.

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

Bible

47.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

48.

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

49.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

50.

It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.

Riley, James Whitcomb