Motivational Quotes

Anger

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

2.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

3.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

4.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

5.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

6.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

7.

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

8.

Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

9.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

10.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

11.

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

Shakespeare, William

12.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

13.

Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid at the back of reason, to come to the front when bidden. For once it begins to take control of the mind, it calls just what it does cruelly.

Curtis, George William

14.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

15.

The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong.

Mizner, Wilson

16.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

17.

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

Freud, Sigmund

18.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

19.

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

20.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

21.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Malcolm X

22.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

23.

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.

24.

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

25.

We are confronted by a first danger, the destructiveness of applied atomic energy. And then we are confronted by a second danger, that we do not enough appreciate the first danger.

Swing, Raymond G.

26.

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

Boyes, John F.

27.

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

Proverb

28.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

29.

Danger -- if you meet it promptly and without flinching -- you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Churchill, Winston

30.

Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

Akhenaton

31.

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

32.

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

Floyd, Pink

33.

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

Laurence J. Peter

34.

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

35.

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

Fuller, Thomas

36.

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

37.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

38.

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