Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

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

Thurber, James

2.

Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.

Greer, Germaine

3.

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

4.

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

5.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

6.

In time of danger it is proper to be alarmed until danger be near at hand; but when we perceive that danger is near, we should oppose it as if we were not afraid.

Hitopadesa

7.

Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much; such men are dangerous. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

8.

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

Boyes, John F.

9.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

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

George, David Lloyd

11.

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

12.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

13.

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

Sarnoff, David

14.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

15.

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

Plato

16.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

17.

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

18.

Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.

Baldwin, James

19.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

20.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

21.

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

22.

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

Ruskin, John

23.

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

Syrus, Publilius

24.

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

Mizner, Wilson

25.

Scornful men bring a city into a snare, but wise men turn away wrath. [Proverbs 29:8]

Bible

26.

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

27.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

28.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

29.

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.

30.

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

Secker, Thomas

31.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

32.

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

33.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

34.

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

Hull, Bobby

35.

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

Harris, Sidney J.

36.

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

Proverb

37.

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

38.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

39.

Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

Akhenaton

40.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

41.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

42.

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

Hugo, Victor

43.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

44.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

45.

Let not the sun go down upon your wrath. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

46.

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

47.

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

Dickinson, Emily

48.

I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

Colby, Frank Moore

49.

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

50.

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