Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

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

2.

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

Mario Puzo

3.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

4.

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.

5.

Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

6.

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

Ellis, Havelock

7.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

8.

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

Mizner, Wilson

9.

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

10.

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

11.

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

Bible

12.

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

Mckay, David O.

13.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

14.

Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.

Fuller, Thomas

15.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

16.

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

Russell, Bertrand

17.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

18.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

19.

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

20.

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

Lucan, F. L.

21.

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

Baldwin, James

22.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

23.

Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

Halifax, Edward F.

24.

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.

25.

Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.

Greer, Germaine

26.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

27.

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

Shenstone, William

28.

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

Shaw, George Bernard

29.

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

Churchill, Winston

30.

In time of danger it is proper to be alarmed until danger be near at hand; but when we perceive that danger is near, we should oppose it as if we were not afraid.

Hitopadesa

31.

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

Sarnoff, David

32.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

33.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

34.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

35.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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.

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

Secker, Thomas

38.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

39.

To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.

Watts, Alan W.

40.

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

41.

A soft answer truth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger. [Proverbs 15:1]

Bible

42.

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

43.

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