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

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

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

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Secker, Thomas

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

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

If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wring, but the coals are.

Beecher, Henry Ward

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

10.

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.

11.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

12.

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

Churchill, Winston

13.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

14.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

15.

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

16.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.

Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

18.

Anger makes dull men witty -- but it keeps them poor.

Bacon, Francis

19.

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

Proverb

20.

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

21.

The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

22.

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.

23.

The broad general rule is that a man is about as big as the things that make him angry.

24.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

25.

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

26.

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

Bible

27.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

28.

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.

29.

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

30.

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

Bible

31.

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

Floyd, Pink

32.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

33.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

34.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

35.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

36.

The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

37.

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

Shakespeare, William

38.

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

39.

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

Pope, Alexander

40.

The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

41.

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

Syrus, Publilius

42.

The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.

Ruskin, John

43.

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

Quarles, Francis

44.

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

Boyes, John F.

45.

It is better to do thine own duty, however lacking in merit, than to do that of another, even though efficiently. It is better to die doing one's own duty, for to do the duty of another is fraught with danger.

Bhagavad Gita

46.

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

47.

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

Hull, Bobby

48.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Proverb

49.

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

Greer, Germaine

50.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.