Motivational Quotes

Anger

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

- Webster, Daniel

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

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

Russell, Bertrand

2.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

Carlyle, Thomas

3.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

4.

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

Bible

5.

The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.

Lucan, F. L.

6.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

7.

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

Dyer, Wayne

8.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

9.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

10.

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.

11.

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

12.

Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much; such men are dangerous. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

13.

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

Floyd, Pink

14.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

15.

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

Mckay, David O.

16.

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.

Cherie Carter-Scott

17.

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

Buddha

18.

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

19.

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

20.

Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.

Babylonian Talmud

21.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

22.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

23.

When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other.

Gaulle, Charles De

24.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

25.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

26.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

27.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.

Buddha

28.

Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.

Baldwin, James

29.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

30.

Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.

Mario Puzo

31.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

32.

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

Joubert, Joseph

33.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

34.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

35.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

36.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

37.

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.

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Bible

41.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

42.

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

Syrus, Publilius

43.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Sarnoff, David

47.

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

Harris, Sidney J.

48.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

49.

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