Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

2.

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

3.

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

4.

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

Freud, Sigmund

5.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

6.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

7.

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

Shenstone, William

8.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

9.

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.

10.

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

Renard, Jules

11.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

12.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

13.

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

Dyer, Wayne

14.

Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.

Greg Evans

15.

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

Gracian, Baltasar

16.

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

Bible

17.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

18.

He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

Plato

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.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

21.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

22.

Nothing is so exhilarating in life as to be shot at with no result.

Churchill, Winston

23.

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

Hull, Bobby

24.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

25.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

26.

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

Horace

27.

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

Bible

28.

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

Akhenaton

29.

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

Proverb

30.

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

Mario Puzo

31.

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

32.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

33.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

34.

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

Webster, John

35.

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

Bible

36.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

37.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

38.

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

39.

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

Sarnoff, David

40.

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

Churchill, Winston

41.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

42.

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

Greer, Germaine

43.

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

Mizner, Wilson

44.

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

45.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

46.

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

47.

Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

Seneca

48.

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

49.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

50.

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

Floyd, Pink