Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Renard, Jules

Best Quotes about Anger

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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

Bible

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

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.

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

Bible

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

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

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Proverb

10.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

11.

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

12.

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

Mizner, Wilson

13.

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

Bible

14.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

15.

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

Maxim, Samurai

16.

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

17.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

18.

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

19.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

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.

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

22.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

Bierce, Ambrose

23.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

24.

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

Floyd, Pink

25.

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

26.

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

Edwards, Tryon

27.

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

Gracian, Baltasar

28.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

29.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

30.

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

Aristotle

31.

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

32.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

33.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

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.

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

Greg Evans

36.

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

Webster, John

37.

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

38.

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

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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

40.

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

41.

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.

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He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.

Magnus, Saint Albertus