Motivational Quotes

Anger

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.

Best Quotes about Anger

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

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

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Quincey, Thomas De

10.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

11.

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

Plato

12.

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

13.

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

Bible

14.

When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out -- because that's what's inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside.

Dyer, Wayne

15.

One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.

Syrus, Publilius

16.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

17.

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

Fuller, Thomas

18.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

19.

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

Shakespeare, William

20.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

21.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

22.

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

Quarles, Francis

23.

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.

24.

Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.

Hillard, G. S.

25.

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

26.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

27.

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

28.

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

Webster, John

29.

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

Bible

30.

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

31.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

32.

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

Russell, Bertrand

33.

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

Ellis, Havelock

34.

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

35.

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

Epictetus

36.

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

Churchill, Winston

37.

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

38.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

39.

The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them. [Proverbs 12:6]

Bible

40.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

41.

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

42.

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

Pope, Alexander

43.

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

Sarnoff, David

44.

The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

45.

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

46.

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

Mizner, Wilson

47.

The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.

Ruskin, John

48.

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

Boyes, John F.

49.

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!