Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

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

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.

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

Joubert, Joseph

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

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

Proverb

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

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

Horace

10.

When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out -- because that's what's inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside.

Dyer, Wayne

11.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

12.

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

Epictetus

13.

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

14.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

15.

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

Syrus, Publilius

16.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

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.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

20.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

21.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

22.

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

Proverb

23.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

24.

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

Thurber, James

25.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

26.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

27.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

28.

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

29.

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

Colton, Charles Caleb

30.

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.

31.

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

32.

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

33.

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

34.

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

Floyd, Pink

35.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

36.

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

Pope, Alexander

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Greer, Germaine

40.

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

Lucan, F. L.

41.

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

Laurence J. Peter

42.

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

Mckay, David O.

43.

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

Bible

44.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

45.

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

46.

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

Hull, Bobby

47.

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

Proverb

48.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

49.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.