Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

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

Bacon, Francis

2.

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

Lucan, F. L.

3.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

4.

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

Shenstone, William

5.

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

Aurelius, Marcus

6.

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

Renard, Jules

7.

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

8.

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.

9.

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

10.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

11.

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

Syrus, Publilius

12.

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

Horace

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 most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

15.

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

Bible

16.

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

Seneca

17.

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

18.

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

19.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

20.

By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned; By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned.

Pope, Alexander

21.

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

Joubert, Joseph

22.

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

Edwards, Tryon

23.

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

Epictetus

24.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Dickinson, Emily

29.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

30.

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

Mario Puzo

31.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

32.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.

Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.

Greg Evans

34.

Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.

Henry, M.

35.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

36.

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

Proverb

37.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

38.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

39.

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

Quarles, Francis

40.

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.

41.

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

42.

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

Gracian, Baltasar

43.

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

44.

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

Sarnoff, David

45.

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

46.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

47.

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

48.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

49.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

50.

It is better to do thine own duty, however lacking in merit, than to do that of another, even though efficiently. It is better to die doing one's own duty, for to do the duty of another is fraught with danger.

Bhagavad Gita