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

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

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

Aurelius, Marcus

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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

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.

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Lucan, F. L.

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

Freud, Sigmund

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

10.

I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they

White, Elwyn Brooks

11.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

12.

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

Bible

13.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

14.

The best answer to anger is silence.

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Mckay, David O.

18.

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

George, David Lloyd

19.

Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.

Greg Evans

20.

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.

21.

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

22.

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

Renard, Jules

23.

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

24.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

25.

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

Bible

26.

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

Proverb

27.

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

28.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

29.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

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

31.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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.

35.

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

36.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

37.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

38.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

39.

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

Floyd, Pink

40.

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

Quarles, Francis

41.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

42.

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

Mario Puzo

43.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

44.

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

45.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

46.

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.

47.

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

48.

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

49.

Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

Akhenaton

50.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Angelou, Maya