Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Proverb

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

Plato

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Mario Puzo

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Aurelius, Marcus

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

10.

Doomed are the hotheads! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, I'm sorry.

Schuller, Robert H.

11.

When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

Jefferson, Thomas

12.

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

13.

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

14.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

15.

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

Bible

16.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

17.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

18.

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

Mizner, Wilson

19.

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

Churchill, Winston

20.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

21.

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

22.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

24.

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

Pope, Alexander

25.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

26.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Emily Dickinson

30.

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

Akhenaton

31.

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

Hull, Bobby

32.

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

Epictetus

33.

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

Baldwin, James

34.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

35.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

36.

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.

Fuller, Thomas

37.

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

38.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

39.

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

40.

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

Thurber, James

41.

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

42.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

43.

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

44.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

45.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

46.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

47.

There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.

Webster, John

48.

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

Quarles, Francis

49.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

50.

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.