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

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Shakespeare, William

If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wring, but the coals are.

Beecher, Henry Ward

The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life.

Maxim, Samurai

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

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

The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances boldly to meet them head on. The weak man grows agitated. But the superior man stands up to fate, endures resolutely in his inner certainty If ignorant both

I Ching

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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

Edwards, Tryon

10.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

11.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

12.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

13.

It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.

Riley, James Whitcomb

14.

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

15.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

16.

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

Harris, Sidney J.

17.

I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

Colby, Frank Moore

18.

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

19.

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

20.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

21.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

22.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

23.

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

24.

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

Buddha

25.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

26.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

27.

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

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.

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

30.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

31.

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

32.

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

Fuller, Thomas

33.

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

34.

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

35.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

36.

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.

37.

The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence.

Beecher, Henry Ward

38.

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

39.

He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.

Magnus, Saint Albertus

40.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

Carlyle, Thomas

41.

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

42.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

43.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

44.

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.

45.

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

46.

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

Bible

47.

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

Akhenaton

48.

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

George, David Lloyd