Motivational Quotes

Anger

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

- Cato The Elder

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

2.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

3.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

4.

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

5.

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

6.

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

Fuller, Thomas

7.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

8.

He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.

Magnus, Saint Albertus

9.

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

10.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

11.

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

Plato

12.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

13.

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

Ruskin, John

14.

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

15.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

16.

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.

17.

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

18.

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

George, David Lloyd

19.

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

Proverb

20.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

21.

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

Bible

22.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

23.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

24.

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

Hull, Bobby

25.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

26.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

27.

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.

28.

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

29.

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

Shenstone, William

30.

Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south.

Shakespeare, William

31.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

32.

He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.

Proverb

33.

There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.

Webster, John

34.

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

Shakespeare, William

35.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

36.

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

Gracian, Baltasar

37.

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

Baldwin, James

38.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

39.

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.

40.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

41.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

42.

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

43.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

44.

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

45.

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

Thurber, James

46.

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

Bacon, Francis

47.

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

Shakespeare, William

48.

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

49.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

50.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George