Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

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

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

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

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

Aristotle

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

Boyes, John F.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Freud, Sigmund

10.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

11.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Quarles, Francis

12.

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

Bible

13.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

14.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

15.

The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong.

Mizner, Wilson

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

20.

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

George, David Lloyd

21.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

22.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

23.

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

Horace

24.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

Joubert, Joseph

25.

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.

26.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

27.

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

Ruskin, John

28.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

29.

Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.

Buddha

30.

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

Webster, John

31.

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

Wallenda, Karl

32.

The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.

Lucan, F. L.

33.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

34.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

35.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Syrus, Publilius

39.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

40.

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

Akhenaton

41.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

42.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

43.

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

Epictetus

44.

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

Proverb

45.

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

46.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

47.

We are confronted by a first danger, the destructiveness of applied atomic energy. And then we are confronted by a second danger, that we do not enough appreciate the first danger.

Swing, Raymond G.

48.

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

Bible

49.

Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. [Ecclesiastes 7:9]

Bible

50.

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