Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

George, David Lloyd

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.

Colton, Charles Caleb

No one can make us angry. People can say and do things to us but it is still up to us as individuals to do what we want with our emotions in response to those things.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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

10.

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

11.

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

Ellis, Havelock

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Proverb

15.

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

16.

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

Renard, Jules

17.

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.

18.

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

19.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

20.

Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.

Fuller, Thomas

21.

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

22.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

23.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

27.

Actually, the streets are quite safe today, it's the people on them who aren't.

28.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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.

32.

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

Mckay, David O.

33.

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

Emily Dickinson

34.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

35.

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

36.

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

Webster, John

37.

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

Bible

38.

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

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My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.