Motivational Quotes

Anger

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Anger

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.

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

Emily Dickinson

The best answer to anger is silence.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

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

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Landor, Walter Savage

I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they

White, Elwyn Brooks

10.

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

11.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.

Buddha

12.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

13.

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

14.

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

Colton, Charles Caleb

15.

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

16.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

17.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

18.

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.

19.

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

Fuller, Thomas

20.

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

Shakespeare, William

21.

If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.

Epictetus

22.

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

23.

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

Floyd, Pink

24.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

25.

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

Shakespeare, William

26.

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

Angelou, Maya

27.

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

28.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

29.

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

Baldwin, James

30.

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

Ruskin, John

31.

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

32.

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

Horace

33.

Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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

35.

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

36.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

37.

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

Bible

38.

There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.

Francis De Sales, St.

39.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

40.

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

Hull, Bobby

41.

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

Bible

42.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

43.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

44.

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

Mario Puzo

45.

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

Secker, Thomas

46.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

47.

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

48.

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

Mizner, Wilson

49.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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