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

1.

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

Bible

2.

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

3.

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

4.

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

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5.

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

Pope, Alexander

6.

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

Renard, Jules

7.

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

8.

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

9.

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

Dyer, Wayne

10.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

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

Mizner, Wilson

12.

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

13.

Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

Halifax, Edward F.

14.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

15.

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

16.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Malcolm X

17.

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

Churchill, Winston

18.

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

Floyd, Pink

19.

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

Bible

20.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

21.

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

Laurence J. Peter

22.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

23.

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

Quincey, Thomas De

24.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

25.

There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.

Dyer, Wayne

26.

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

Bible

27.

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

Greer, Germaine

28.

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.

29.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

30.

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

31.

Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

32.

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

33.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Quarles, Francis

34.

Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

Proverb, Malabar

35.

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

Bible

36.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

37.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

38.

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

Mckay, David O.

39.

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

Freud, Sigmund

40.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

41.

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

42.

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

Secker, Thomas

43.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

44.

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

45.

Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south.

Shakespeare, William

46.

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

47.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

48.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

49.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

50.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.