Motivational Quotes

Anger

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

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

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

Proverb

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

Akhenaton

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

10.

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

Floyd, Pink

11.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

12.

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

Shenstone, William

13.

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

14.

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

15.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

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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

17.

Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.

Shakespeare, William

18.

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

19.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

20.

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

Quarles, Francis

21.

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

Lucan, F. L.

22.

When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out -- because that's what's inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside.

Dyer, Wayne

23.

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

Greg Evans

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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.

Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, everyone should be serene, slow-pulsed and calm.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Bible

27.

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

28.

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

Mizner, Wilson

29.

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

Webster, John

30.

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

Syrus, Publilius

31.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

32.

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

Russell, Bertrand

33.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

34.

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

George, David Lloyd

35.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

36.

I used to store my anger and it affected my play. Now I get it out. I'm never rude to my playing partner. I'm very focused on the ball. Then it's over.

Alfredsson, Helen

37.

Anyone can become angry -- that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way -- this is not easy.

Aristotle

38.

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

Angelis, Barbara De

39.

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.

40.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

41.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

42.

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.

43.

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

44.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

45.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Bacon, Francis

47.

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

48.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

49.

Act nothing in a furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.

Fuller, Thomas

50.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian