Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Bible

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

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

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

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

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

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

10.

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

Hugo, Victor

11.

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

Mckay, David O.

12.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

13.

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

Bible

14.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

15.

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

16.

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.

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Mario Puzo

20.

I used to store my anger and it affected my play. Now I get it out. I'm never rude to my playing partner. I'm very focused on the ball. Then it's over.

Alfredsson, Helen

21.

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

Fuller, Thomas

22.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

23.

I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

Barton, Clara

24.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

26.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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.

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

Lucan, F. L.

29.

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

30.

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

Churchill, Winston

31.

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

Clarendon

32.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

33.

Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.

Antonius, Marcus

34.

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

George, David Lloyd

35.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

36.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

37.

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

38.

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

Angelou, Maya

39.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

40.

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

Mizner, Wilson

41.

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

Edwards, Tryon

42.

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

Bible

43.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

44.

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

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.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

47.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

48.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

49.

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.

50.

The best answer to anger is silence.