Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

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

Maxim, Samurai

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Quarles, Francis

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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

Proverb

Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.

Mario Puzo

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

10.

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

Seneca

11.

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

12.

Don't play for safety -- it's the most dangerous thing in the world.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

13.

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

Shakespeare, William

14.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

15.

Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.

Hull, Bobby

16.

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

17.

Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid at the back of reason, to come to the front when bidden. For once it begins to take control of the mind, it calls just what it does cruelly.

Curtis, George William

18.

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

Dyer, Wayne

19.

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

Shenstone, William

20.

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

21.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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.

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

Lucan, F. L.

24.

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

Bible

25.

Doomed are the hotheads! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, I'm sorry.

Schuller, Robert H.

26.

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

Secker, Thomas

27.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

28.

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

29.

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

Fuller, Thomas

30.

The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.

George, David Lloyd

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Dyer, Wayne

35.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

36.

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

Mizner, Wilson

37.

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

Sarnoff, David

38.

Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.

Buddha

39.

Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.

Fuller, Thomas

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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

41.

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

42.

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

Baldwin, James

43.

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.

44.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

45.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

Carlyle, Thomas

46.

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

Epictetus

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When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius