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

Act nothing in a furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.

Fuller, Thomas

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.

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

Bible

The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

10.

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

Bible

11.

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

Hull, Bobby

12.

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

Mizner, Wilson

13.

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.

14.

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

Bible

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Proverb

18.

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

Horace

19.

Anger is one letter short of danger, Greatest remedy for anger is delay

20.

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

Proverb

21.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

22.

Danger -- if you meet it promptly and without flinching -- you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Churchill, Winston

23.

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

Emily Dickinson

24.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

25.

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

26.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

27.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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 man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

30.

Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.

Henry Ward Beecher

31.

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.

32.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

33.

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

Sarnoff, David

34.

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

35.

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

Edwards, Tryon

36.

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

37.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

38.

Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.

Baldwin, James

39.

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

Freud, Sigmund

40.

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

Greer, Germaine

41.

Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

42.

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

Shenstone, William

43.

The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence.

Beecher, Henry Ward

44.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

45.

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.

46.

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.

47.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

48.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

49.

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

Bacon, Francis

50.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.