Motivational Quotes

Anger

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

- Buddha

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

2.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

3.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

4.

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

5.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

6.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

7.

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

Shakespeare, William

8.

I have seen a peaceful expression turn to anger as fast as a whip cracks, and so the look on the face might mean less than what it seems to be.

Erica Eisdorfer

9.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

10.

There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.

Dyer, Wayne

11.

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

Syrus, Publilius

12.

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.

13.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

14.

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.

15.

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

16.

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

17.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

18.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

19.

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

Edwards, Tryon

20.

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

Ellis, Havelock

21.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

22.

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

Plato

23.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

24.

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

25.

I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

Barton, Clara

26.

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

27.

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

Bible

28.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

29.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

30.

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

Mckay, David O.

31.

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

Boyes, John F.

32.

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

Russell, Bertrand

33.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

34.

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

35.

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

Buddha

36.

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

37.

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

Shenstone, William

38.

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

Baldwin, James

39.

By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned; By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned.

Pope, Alexander

40.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Bible

44.

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

Emily Dickinson

45.

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

46.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

47.

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

Bible

48.

The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.

Freud, Sigmund

49.

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