Motivational Quotes

Anger

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

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

Bible

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

Shakespeare, William

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

Sarnoff, David

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

10.

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

Shakespeare, William

11.

In time of danger it is proper to be alarmed until danger be near at hand; but when we perceive that danger is near, we should oppose it as if we were not afraid.

Hitopadesa

12.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

14.

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

15.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

16.

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

17.

The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

Landor, Walter Savage

18.

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

Angelou, Maya

19.

Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.

Henry Ward Beecher

20.

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.

21.

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

22.

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

Edwards, Tryon

23.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

24.

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

Dickinson, Emily

25.

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

Mckay, David O.

26.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

27.

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.

Cherie Carter-Scott

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.

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

Baldwin, James

30.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

31.

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

32.

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.

33.

The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression. [Proverbs 19:11]

Bible

34.

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

Wallenda, Karl

35.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

36.

It is better to do thine own duty, however lacking in merit, than to do that of another, even though efficiently. It is better to die doing one's own duty, for to do the duty of another is fraught with danger.

Bhagavad Gita

37.

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

38.

Nothing is so exhilarating in life as to be shot at with no result.

Churchill, Winston

39.

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

40.

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.

41.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

42.

Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.

Mario Puzo

43.

All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.

Paley, Babe

44.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

45.

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

46.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

47.

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

Webster, John

48.

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

49.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

50.

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

Bierce, Ambrose