Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

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

2.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

3.

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

Fuller, Thomas

4.

The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life.

Maxim, Samurai

5.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

6.

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

7.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

8.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

9.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

Russell, Bertrand

11.

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.

Colton, Charles Caleb

12.

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

Bible

13.

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

Horace

14.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

15.

The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression. [Proverbs 19:11]

Bible

16.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

17.

Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.

Halifax, Edward F.

18.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

19.

I have seen a peaceful expression turn to anger as fast as a whip cracks, and so the look on the face might mean less than what it seems to be.

Erica Eisdorfer

20.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

21.

Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

22.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

23.

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

Syrus, Publilius

24.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

25.

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

26.

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

Baldwin, James

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.

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

Renard, Jules

29.

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

Quincey, Thomas De

30.

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

31.

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

32.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

33.

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

Ruskin, John

34.

The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

35.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

36.

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

Bible

37.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

38.

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

Epictetus

39.

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

Boyes, John F.

40.

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

41.

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

Akhenaton

42.

Actually, the streets are quite safe today, it's the people on them who aren't.

43.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

44.

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

Jefferson, Thomas