Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

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

Shakespeare, William

2.

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

Bible

3.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

4.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

5.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

6.

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

Shenstone, William

7.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

8.

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

9.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

10.

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

Plato

11.

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.

12.

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

13.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

14.

It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.

Riley, James Whitcomb

15.

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

Ruskin, John

16.

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.

17.

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

Fuller, Thomas

18.

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

Bible

19.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

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

George, David Lloyd

21.

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

Renard, Jules

22.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

23.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

Carlyle, Thomas

24.

Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.

Halifax, Edward F.

25.

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

Quincey, Thomas De

26.

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

27.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

28.

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

Dickinson, Emily

29.

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

30.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

31.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

32.

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

Russell, Bertrand

33.

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

Mizner, Wilson

34.

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

Epictetus

35.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

36.

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

Bible

37.

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

Quarles, Francis

38.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

39.

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

Seneca

40.

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

Boyes, John F.

41.

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

Maxim, Samurai

42.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

43.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

44.

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

45.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

46.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

47.

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.

48.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

49.

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

Laurence J. Peter

50.

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

Angelou, Maya