Motivational Quotes

Anger

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

- Cato The Elder

Best Quotes about Anger

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

Ellis, Havelock

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

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

Anyone can become angry -- that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way -- this is not easy.

Aristotle

Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. [Ecclesiastes 7:9]

Bible

The best answer to anger is silence.

10.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

11.

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

12.

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

Bible

13.

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

Lucan, F. L.

14.

Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.

Shakespeare, William

15.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

16.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

17.

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

18.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

19.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

20.

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

Baldwin, James

21.

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

Shenstone, William

22.

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.

23.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

24.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

25.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

26.

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

27.

Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south.

Shakespeare, William

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.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.

Buddha

30.

Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.

Hillard, G. S.

31.

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

Bible

32.

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

Greg Evans

33.

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.

34.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

35.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

36.

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

Mizner, Wilson

37.

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

38.

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

39.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

40.

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

Mario Puzo

41.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

45.

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

Floyd, Pink

46.

The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

47.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

48.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

49.

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

50.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb