Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Akhenaton

Best Quotes about Anger

Nothing is so exhilarating in life as to be shot at with no result.

Churchill, Winston

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.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Floyd, Pink

To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.

Edwards, Tryon

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

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

10.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

11.

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.

12.

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

13.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

14.

Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.

Mckay, David O.

15.

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

Akhenaton

16.

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

18.

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.

19.

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

Epictetus

20.

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

21.

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

Ellis, Havelock

22.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

23.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

24.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

25.

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

Ruskin, John

26.

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

Wallenda, Karl

27.

If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself:'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.'When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.

Epictetus

28.

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

Buddha

29.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Dickinson, Emily

35.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

36.

A wave of anger washed over me, anger against myself, at my age at the time, that stupid lyrically age, when a man is too great a riddle to himself to be interested in the riddles outside himself and when other people are mere walking mirrors in which he is amazed to find his own emotions, his own worth.

Kundera, Milan

37.

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

Freud, Sigmund

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.

Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.

Henry Ward Beecher

40.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

41.

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

42.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

43.

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

Pope, Alexander

44.

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

45.

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

Baldwin, James

46.

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

Bacon, Francis

47.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

48.

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

49.

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

50.

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

Sarnoff, David