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.

Don't play for safety -- it's the most dangerous thing in the world.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

2.

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

Secker, Thomas

3.

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

4.

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

Bible

5.

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

Sarnoff, David

6.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

7.

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

Laurence J. Peter

8.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

9.

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

10.

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

Seneca

11.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

12.

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

13.

It is better to do thine own duty, however lacking in merit, than to do that of another, even though efficiently. It is better to die doing one's own duty, for to do the duty of another is fraught with danger.

Bhagavad Gita

14.

By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned; By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned.

Pope, Alexander

15.

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

Bible

16.

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

17.

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

Thurber, James

18.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

19.

Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.

Shakespeare, William

20.

We are confronted by a first danger, the destructiveness of applied atomic energy. And then we are confronted by a second danger, that we do not enough appreciate the first danger.

Swing, Raymond G.

21.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

22.

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

Hull, Bobby

23.

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

24.

The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

25.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

26.

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

27.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

28.

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

Mizner, Wilson

29.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.

Buddha

30.

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

Fuller, Thomas

31.

Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.

Antonius, Marcus

32.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

33.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

34.

Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

35.

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

Angelis, Barbara De

36.

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

Webster, John

37.

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

Bacon, Francis

38.

The best answer to anger is silence.

39.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

40.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

41.

Anger as soon as fed is dead; 'Tis starving makes it fat.

Dickinson, Emily

42.

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

43.

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

Dyer, Wayne

44.

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

Wallenda, Karl

45.

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

Bible

46.

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

47.

If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself:'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.'When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.

Epictetus

48.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

49.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

50.

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.