Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Edwards, Tryon

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south.

Shakespeare, William

As the whirlwind in its fury teareth up trees, and deformeth the face of nature, or as an earthquake in its convulsions overturneth whole cities; so the rage of an angry man throweth mischief around him.

Akhenaton

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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

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

Proverb

10.

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

11.

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

12.

If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.

Epictetus

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

Mizner, Wilson

14.

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.

15.

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

Ruskin, John

16.

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

Aristotle

17.

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

Bacon, Francis

18.

The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

Landor, Walter Savage

19.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

20.

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

21.

It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and angry woman. [Proverbs 21:19]

Bible

22.

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

Churchill, Winston

23.

Sticks and stones may break your bones when there's anger to impart. Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart. Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

24.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

25.

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

26.

Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.

Cervantes, Miguel De

27.

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

Renard, Jules

28.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

29.

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.

30.

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

Boyes, John F.

31.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

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

33.

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

34.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

35.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

36.

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

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Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, everyone should be serene, slow-pulsed and calm.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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

39.

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

George, David Lloyd

40.

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

Lucan, F. L.

41.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

42.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

43.

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

Churchill, Winston

44.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

45.

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.

46.

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

Shakespeare, William

47.

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

48.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

49.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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