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: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

Seneca

2.

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

Mario Puzo

3.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

4.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

5.

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

6.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

7.

I lose my temper, but it's all over in a minute, said the student. So is the hydrogen bomb, I replied. But think of the damage it produces!

Sweeting, George

8.

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

9.

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.

10.

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

Shenstone, William

11.

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

Fuller, Thomas

12.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

13.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

14.

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

15.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

16.

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.

17.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

18.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

19.

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

20.

My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. [James 1:19-20]

Bible

21.

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

Hull, Bobby

22.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

23.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

24.

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

25.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

26.

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

Shakespeare, William

27.

Whenever you get red in the face, whenever you raise your voice, whenever you get hot under the collar or angry, rebellious or negative in spirit, then know that the spirit of God is leaving you and the spirit of Satan is beginning to take over.

28.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

29.

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

30.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

32.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

33.

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

34.

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

Bible

35.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

36.

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

Ruskin, John

37.

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

38.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

39.

The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.

George, David Lloyd

40.

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

Greg Evans

41.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

42.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

43.

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

44.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

45.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

46.

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

47.

He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.