Motivational Quotes

Anger

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

- Selden, John

Best Quotes about Anger

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.

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

Quarles, Francis

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

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

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

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

Bible

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

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

Francis De Sales, St.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

10.

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

Thurber, James

11.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

12.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

13.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

14.

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

15.

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

George, David Lloyd

16.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

17.

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

18.

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

Dyer, Wayne

19.

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

Seneca

20.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

21.

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

Greer, Germaine

22.

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

Bible

23.

The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.

Long, Haniel

24.

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

Floyd, Pink

25.

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

26.

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.

27.

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

Russell, Bertrand

28.

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

Proverb

29.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

30.

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

31.

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

Joan Lunden

32.

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

33.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

34.

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

Mckay, David O.

35.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

36.

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

37.

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

Proverb

38.

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

Freud, Sigmund

39.

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

40.

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

41.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

42.

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

43.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

44.

Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.

Mario Puzo

45.

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

46.

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

47.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

48.

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

49.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

50.

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