Motivational Quotes

Anger

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.

Beecher, Henry Ward

2.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

3.

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

4.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

5.

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

Emily Dickinson

6.

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

7.

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

Sarnoff, David

8.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

9.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

10.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

11.

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.

12.

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

Dyer, Wayne

13.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

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

Shenstone, William

15.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

16.

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

17.

A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied with small gains, which will come by creative adaptations.

I Ching

18.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

19.

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

George, David Lloyd

20.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

21.

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

22.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

23.

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

Shakespeare, William

24.

I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.

Maxine Waters

25.

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

Bible

26.

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

27.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

28.

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

Horace

29.

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

30.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

31.

Danger -- if you meet it promptly and without flinching -- you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Churchill, Winston

32.

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

Angelou, Maya

33.

If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wring, but the coals are.

Beecher, Henry Ward

34.

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.

35.

He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

Plato

36.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

37.

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

Mckay, David O.

38.

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

Baldwin, James

39.

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

40.

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.

41.

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.

42.

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

43.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

44.

Let not the sun go down upon your wrath. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

45.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

46.

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