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

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

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

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

Bible

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

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.

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

Proverb

10.

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

Ellis, Havelock

11.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

12.

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

Edwards, Tryon

13.

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

Hugo, Victor

14.

Anger makes dull men witty -- but it keeps them poor.

Bacon, Francis

15.

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

Freud, Sigmund

16.

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

17.

We are confronted by a first danger, the destructiveness of applied atomic energy. And then we are confronted by a second danger, that we do not enough appreciate the first danger.

Swing, Raymond G.

18.

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

19.

No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.

Brown, John Mason

20.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

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

Quarles, Francis

22.

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

Shenstone, William

23.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

24.

Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.

Halifax, Edward F.

25.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

26.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

27.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

28.

Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

Seneca

29.

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

30.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

31.

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

Syrus, Publilius

32.

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

Joubert, Joseph

33.

No one is as angry as the person who is wrong.

Proverb

34.

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

Dickinson, Emily

35.

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

George, David Lloyd

36.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

37.

Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

Akhenaton

38.

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

Fuller, Thomas

39.

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

Mizner, Wilson

40.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

41.

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

Angelou, Maya

42.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

43.

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

Buddha

44.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

45.

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

Proverb, Malabar

46.

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

47.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

Floyd, Pink