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

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

Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.

Wallenda, Karl

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.

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.

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

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

Floyd, Pink

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.

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

Dickinson, Emily

10.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

11.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

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

Bible

13.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

14.

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

Bible

15.

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

Bible

16.

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

17.

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

Pope, Alexander

18.

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

Sarnoff, David

19.

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

Hull, Bobby

20.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

21.

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

22.

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

Lucan, F. L.

23.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

24.

I lose my temper, but it's all over in a minute, said the student. So is the hydrogen bomb, I replied. But think of the damage it produces!

Sweeting, George

25.

Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

Halifax, Edward F.

26.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

30.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

31.

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

32.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

33.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

34.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

35.

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

Bible

36.

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

37.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

38.

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.

39.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

40.

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

Angelou, Maya

41.

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

Horace

42.

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

Webster, John

43.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

44.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

45.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

46.

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

Thurber, James

47.

Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.

Mckay, David O.

48.

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

George, David Lloyd

49.

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

Shakespeare, William

50.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

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