Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Walpole, Sir Hugh

Best Quotes about Anger

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Bible

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

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Bible

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Bible

10.

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

Edwards, Tryon

11.

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.

12.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

13.

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

Horace

14.

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

15.

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

Fuller, Thomas

16.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

17.

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

Renard, Jules

18.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

19.

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

Floyd, Pink

20.

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

21.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Bible

26.

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

Gracian, Baltasar

27.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

28.

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

Shenstone, William

29.

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

30.

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

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.

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

33.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

34.

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

35.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

36.

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

37.

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

Hull, Bobby

38.

He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

Plato

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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.

42.

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

Thurber, James

43.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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.

47.

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

Proverb

48.

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

Fuller, Thomas

49.

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

Epictetus

50.

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

Joubert, Joseph