Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

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

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

Boyes, John F.

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

Proverb

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

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Proverb

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.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

10.

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

Bible

11.

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

Plato

12.

There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.

Francis De Sales, St.

13.

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

14.

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

Freud, Sigmund

15.

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

16.

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

Dickinson, Emily

17.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

18.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

19.

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

Dyer, Wayne

20.

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

Angelou, Maya

21.

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

Bible

22.

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

Ruskin, John

23.

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.

24.

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

Bacon, Francis

25.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

26.

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

Floyd, Pink

27.

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.

28.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

29.

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

Laurence J. Peter

30.

A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied with small gains, which will come by creative adaptations.

I Ching

31.

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

Buddha

32.

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

Webster, John

33.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

34.

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

35.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

36.

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

37.

If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wring, but the coals are.

Beecher, Henry Ward

38.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

39.

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

40.

Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.

Henry Ward Beecher

41.

Do not suppress it-that would hurt you inside. Do not express it-this would not only hurt you inside, it would cause ripples in your surroundings. What you do is transform it.

Pilgrim, Peace

42.

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.

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Ellis, Havelock

46.

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

Shakespeare, William

47.

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

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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.

49.

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

50.

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

Hull, Bobby