Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Boyes, John F.

Best Quotes about Anger

No one is as angry as the person who is wrong.

Proverb

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

The best answer to anger is silence.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Epictetus

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

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

Bible

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.

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

Hull, Bobby

10.

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

11.

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

Lucan, F. L.

12.

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

13.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

14.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

15.

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

16.

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

Emily Dickinson

17.

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

18.

The broad general rule is that a man is about as big as the things that make him angry.

19.

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

20.

The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances boldly to meet them head on. The weak man grows agitated. But the superior man stands up to fate, endures resolutely in his inner certainty If ignorant both

I Ching

21.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

22.

No one can make us angry. People can say and do things to us but it is still up to us as individuals to do what we want with our emotions in response to those things.

23.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

24.

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

25.

Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.

Henry, M.

26.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

27.

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

28.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

29.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

30.

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

31.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

32.

The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life.

Maxim, Samurai

33.

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

Bible

34.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

35.

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

Greer, Germaine

36.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

37.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

38.

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.

39.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

40.

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

41.

To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.

Edwards, Tryon

42.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

43.

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

44.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

45.

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.

46.

Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much; such men are dangerous. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

47.

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

Laurence J. Peter

48.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

49.

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.