Motivational Quotes

Anger

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

- Cato The Elder

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Ruskin, John

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

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

Plato

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

10.

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

Akhenaton

11.

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

12.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

13.

Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

14.

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

Horace

15.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

16.

Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

Proverb, Malabar

17.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

18.

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

19.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

20.

There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.

Dyer, Wayne

21.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

22.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

23.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

24.

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

25.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

26.

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.

27.

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

Bible

28.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

29.

Sticks and stones may break your bones when there's anger to impart. Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart. Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

30.

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.

31.

The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.

Freud, Sigmund

32.

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

33.

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

Pope, Alexander

34.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

35.

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

Proverb

36.

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

Bible

37.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

38.

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

39.

Anger makes dull men witty -- but it keeps them poor.

Bacon, Francis

40.

The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them. [Proverbs 12:6]

Bible

41.

Do not suppress it-that would hurt you inside. Do not express it-this would not only hurt you inside, it would cause ripples in your surroundings. What you do is transform it.

Pilgrim, Peace

42.

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

43.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

44.

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

45.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

46.

What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you.

Dyer, Wayne

47.

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

Laurence J. Peter

48.

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

49.

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

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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