Motivational Quotes

Anger

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

- Chapman, George

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

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.

2.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

3.

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

4.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

5.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

6.

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

Freud, Sigmund

7.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

8.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

9.

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

Proverb, Malabar

10.

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

Epictetus

11.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

12.

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

13.

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

Dyer, Wayne

14.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

15.

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

Ellis, Havelock

16.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

17.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

18.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Angelou, Maya

19.

Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.

Wallenda, Karl

20.

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

Bible

21.

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

Dickinson, Emily

22.

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

23.

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

24.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

25.

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

26.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

27.

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

28.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

29.

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

30.

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

Boyes, John F.

31.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

32.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

33.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

34.

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

Pope, Alexander

35.

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

Proverb

36.

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

Bible

37.

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

Ruskin, John

38.

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.

39.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

40.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

41.

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

42.

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

Fuller, Thomas

43.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

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.

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

Bible

46.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

47.

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

Shakespeare, William

48.

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