Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

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

2.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

3.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

4.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

5.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

6.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

7.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

8.

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

9.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

10.

No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.

Brown, John Mason

11.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

12.

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

Akhenaton

13.

When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out -- because that's what's inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside.

Dyer, Wayne

14.

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

Churchill, Winston

15.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

16.

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

Edwards, Tryon

17.

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

Lucan, F. L.

18.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

19.

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

Dyer, Wayne

20.

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

Laurence J. Peter

21.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

22.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

23.

There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.

Dyer, Wayne

24.

Anger is one letter short of danger, Greatest remedy for anger is delay

25.

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

Wallenda, Karl

26.

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

27.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

Joubert, Joseph

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

32.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

33.

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

34.

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

35.

However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

Ellis, Havelock

36.

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

Bible

37.

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

38.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

39.

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.

40.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

41.

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.

42.

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

43.

Actually, the streets are quite safe today, it's the people on them who aren't.

44.

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

Proverb

45.

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

Gracian, Baltasar