Motivational Quotes

Anger

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you.

Dyer, Wayne

2.

It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and angry woman. [Proverbs 21:19]

Bible

3.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

4.

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

Bacon, Francis

5.

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.

6.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

7.

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

Plato

8.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

9.

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

Quarles, Francis

10.

I used to store my anger and it affected my play. Now I get it out. I'm never rude to my playing partner. I'm very focused on the ball. Then it's over.

Alfredsson, Helen

11.

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

Seneca

12.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

No one can make us angry. People can say and do things to us but it is still up to us as individuals to do what we want with our emotions in response to those things.

14.

Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

15.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

16.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Proverb

17.

Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.

Greer, Germaine

18.

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

Mckay, David O.

19.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

20.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

21.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

22.

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

23.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

24.

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

25.

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

Ruskin, John

26.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

27.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

28.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

29.

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

Pope, Alexander

30.

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

Floyd, Pink

31.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

32.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

33.

If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.

Epictetus

34.

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

Sarnoff, David

35.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

36.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

37.

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

Laurence J. Peter

38.

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

Secker, Thomas

39.

The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence.

Beecher, Henry Ward

40.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

41.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

42.

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

Dickinson, Emily

43.

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

Hugo, Victor

44.

Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.

Buddha

45.

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

Renard, Jules

46.

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

Shakespeare, William

47.

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

48.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.