Motivational Quotes

Anger

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

- SeVigne, Marquise De

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Akhenaton

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

Hugo, Victor

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.

Cherie Carter-Scott

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

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

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

10.

The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression. [Proverbs 19:11]

Bible

11.

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

12.

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

Secker, Thomas

13.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

14.

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

George, David Lloyd

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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

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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

17.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

18.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

19.

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

20.

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

Proverb

21.

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

22.

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

Freud, Sigmund

23.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

24.

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

Wallenda, Karl

25.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

26.

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

Boyes, John F.

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

Syrus, Publilius

28.

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

Shenstone, William

29.

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

Angelou, Maya

30.

The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

Landor, Walter Savage

31.

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

32.

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

Horace

33.

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

Colton, Charles Caleb

34.

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

Russell, Bertrand

35.

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

Floyd, Pink

36.

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

37.

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

Edwards, Tryon

38.

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

39.

Anyone can become angry -- that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way -- this is not easy.

Aristotle

40.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

41.

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

Joubert, Joseph

42.

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

43.

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.

44.

Doomed are the hotheads! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, I'm sorry.

Schuller, Robert H.

45.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

46.

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

47.

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

Fuller, Thomas

48.

If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.

Epictetus

49.

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

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Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.