Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Webster, John

Best Quotes about Anger

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

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

Halifax, Edward F.

I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.

Maxine Waters

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

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

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

Quincey, Thomas De

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Bible

10.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

11.

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

12.

The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life.

Maxim, Samurai

13.

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

Joubert, Joseph

14.

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

15.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

16.

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

17.

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

Dyer, Wayne

18.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

19.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

20.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

21.

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

22.

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

Bible

23.

Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.

Wallenda, Karl

24.

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

25.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

26.

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

27.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

28.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

29.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

30.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

31.

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

Fuller, Thomas

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Secker, Thomas

35.

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

Edwards, Tryon

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

40.

Danger -- if you meet it promptly and without flinching -- you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Churchill, Winston

41.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

42.

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

Thurber, James

43.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

44.

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

Bible

45.

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

Bible

46.

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

47.

A wave of anger washed over me, anger against myself, at my age at the time, that stupid lyrically age, when a man is too great a riddle to himself to be interested in the riddles outside himself and when other people are mere walking mirrors in which he is amazed to find his own emotions, his own worth.

Kundera, Milan

48.

He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.

Proverb

49.

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

Ruskin, John

50.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De