Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- George, David Lloyd

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Edwards, Tryon

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

10.

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

Secker, Thomas

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Bible

14.

I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they

White, Elwyn Brooks

15.

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

16.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

17.

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.

Fuller, Thomas

18.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

19.

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

Ellis, Havelock

20.

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.

21.

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

Proverb

22.

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

Baldwin, James

23.

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

24.

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

Shenstone, William

25.

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

26.

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

Emily Dickinson

27.

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

Bible

28.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

29.

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

30.

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

Shakespeare, William

31.

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

Boyes, John F.

32.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

33.

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

34.

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

Dyer, Wayne

35.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

36.

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

37.

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

Plato

38.

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

Angelou, Maya

39.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

40.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

41.

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

Churchill, Winston

42.

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

43.

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

44.

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

Epictetus

45.

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

46.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

47.

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

Pope, Alexander

48.

When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other.

Gaulle, Charles De

49.

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.