Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Quarles, Francis

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Seneca

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

Floyd, Pink

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Mckay, David O.

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

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

Bible

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

Hull, Bobby

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

Shakespeare, William

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

Russell, Bertrand

10.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

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

Freud, Sigmund

15.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

16.

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

Plato

17.

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

18.

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

Bible

19.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

20.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

21.

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

Syrus, Publilius

22.

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.

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Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, everyone should be serene, slow-pulsed and calm.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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.

25.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

26.

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

Secker, Thomas

27.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

28.

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

29.

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

Greer, Germaine

30.

Anyone can become angry -- that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way -- this is not easy.

Aristotle

31.

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.

32.

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

Ellis, Havelock

33.

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

Hugo, Victor

34.

Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.

Babylonian Talmud

35.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

36.

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.

37.

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

Sarnoff, David

38.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

39.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

40.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

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.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

43.

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

Edwards, Tryon

44.

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

45.

The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

Landor, Walter Savage

46.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

Bible

49.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

50.

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