Motivational Quotes

Anger

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Proverb

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

Bierce, Ambrose

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.

Fuller, Thomas

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

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

Floyd, Pink

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

Dyer, Wayne

10.

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

11.

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

Wallenda, Karl

12.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

13.

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

14.

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

Dyer, Wayne

15.

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

Bacon, Francis

16.

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

17.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

18.

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

19.

Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

Akhenaton

20.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

21.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

22.

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

Joubert, Joseph

23.

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

24.

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.

25.

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

Lucan, F. L.

26.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid at the back of reason, to come to the front when bidden. For once it begins to take control of the mind, it calls just what it does cruelly.

Curtis, George William

28.

Let not the sun go down upon your wrath. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

29.

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

30.

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

Fuller, Thomas

31.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

32.

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.

33.

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

34.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

35.

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

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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

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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.

38.

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

Mckay, David O.

39.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

40.

In time of danger it is proper to be alarmed until danger be near at hand; but when we perceive that danger is near, we should oppose it as if we were not afraid.

Hitopadesa

41.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

42.

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

Seneca

43.

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

Syrus, Publilius

44.

Do not suppress it-that would hurt you inside. Do not express it-this would not only hurt you inside, it would cause ripples in your surroundings. What you do is transform it.

Pilgrim, Peace

45.

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.

46.

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

Proverb

47.

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

Aurelius, Marcus

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If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.

Henry, M.