Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Renard, Jules

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Renard, Jules

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.

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

Mizner, Wilson

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Buddha

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

10.

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

Bible

11.

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

Sarnoff, David

12.

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

Secker, Thomas

13.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

14.

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

15.

The best answer to anger is silence.

16.

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

Dyer, Wayne

17.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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.

21.

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

Shenstone, William

22.

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

Mario Puzo

23.

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

Colton, Charles Caleb

24.

There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.

Webster, John

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

28.

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

Fuller, Thomas

29.

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.

30.

I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

Barton, Clara

31.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

32.

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

33.

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.

34.

When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

Jefferson, Thomas

35.

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

Proverb, Malabar

36.

Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.

Cervantes, Miguel De

37.

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

Churchill, Winston

38.

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

Greg Evans

39.

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

Quincey, Thomas De

40.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Malcolm X

41.

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

Shakespeare, William

42.

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.

43.

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

44.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

45.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

46.

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

47.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

48.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

49.

To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.

Watts, Alan W.

50.

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