Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Secker, Thomas

Best Quotes about Anger

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

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

George, David Lloyd

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

Thurber, James

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

Greg Evans

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

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

Dyer, Wayne

When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

10.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

11.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

12.

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.

13.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

14.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

15.

There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.

Francis De Sales, St.

16.

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

Webster, John

17.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

18.

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

Shenstone, William

19.

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

20.

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

21.

No one can make us angry. People can say and do things to us but it is still up to us as individuals to do what we want with our emotions in response to those things.

22.

Anger as soon as fed is dead; 'Tis starving makes it fat.

Dickinson, Emily

23.

When you meet up with a disagreeable person, never allow yourself to be upset. Say to yourself,if a dowdy like that can stand himself all his life, surely I can stand him for a few minutes.

24.

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

25.

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

Shakespeare, William

26.

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

27.

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

Bible

28.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

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

Syrus, Publilius

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Ellis, Havelock

33.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

34.

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

35.

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

Dyer, Wayne

36.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

37.

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

38.

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

39.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

40.

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

Renard, Jules

41.

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

Edwards, Tryon

42.

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

Fuller, Thomas

43.

He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.

Proverb

44.

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

Hugo, Victor

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

48.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

49.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

50.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian