Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

A soft answer truth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger. [Proverbs 15:1]

Bible

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Proverb

It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and angry woman. [Proverbs 21:19]

Bible

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

Angelou, Maya

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

10.

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

11.

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

Shenstone, William

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Joubert, Joseph

16.

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

Bible

17.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

18.

Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. [Ecclesiastes 7:9]

Bible

19.

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

20.

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

21.

I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.

Maxine Waters

22.

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

Fuller, Thomas

23.

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

George, David Lloyd

24.

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

25.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

26.

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.

27.

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

Boyes, John F.

28.

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

29.

A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied with small gains, which will come by creative adaptations.

I Ching

30.

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

31.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

32.

However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

Ellis, Havelock

33.

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

34.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

35.

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.

36.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

37.

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

Mckay, David O.

38.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

39.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

40.

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

Freud, Sigmund

41.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

42.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

43.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

44.

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

Thurber, James

45.

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

46.

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

Buddha

47.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

48.

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.

49.

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

50.

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

Lucan, F. L.