Motivational Quotes

Anger

No person is important enough to make me angry.

- Castaneda, Carlos

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.

Wallenda, Karl

2.

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.

3.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

4.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

5.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

6.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

7.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

8.

Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.

Cervantes, Miguel De

9.

Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.

Babylonian Talmud

10.

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

11.

Anger makes dull men witty -- but it keeps them poor.

Bacon, Francis

12.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

13.

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.

14.

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

15.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

16.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

17.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

18.

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

Fuller, Thomas

19.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

20.

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

Lucan, F. L.

21.

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

22.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

23.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

24.

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

Horace

25.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

26.

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

27.

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

Proverb

28.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

29.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

30.

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

31.

I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

Colby, Frank Moore

32.

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

Floyd, Pink

33.

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

Emily Dickinson

34.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

35.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

36.

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

Fuller, Thomas

37.

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

Buddha

38.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

39.

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

40.

Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.

Antonius, Marcus

41.

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

42.

The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them. [Proverbs 12:6]

Bible

43.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

44.

The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.

Long, Haniel

45.

My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. [James 1:19-20]

Bible

46.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

47.

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

48.

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

Shenstone, William

49.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

50.

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

Shakespeare, William