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

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

Wallenda, Karl

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

Akhenaton

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

Quincey, Thomas De

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

Mckay, David O.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

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.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

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

10.

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

11.

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

Shakespeare, William

12.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

13.

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

Seneca

14.

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

Buddha

15.

Let not the sun go down upon your wrath. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

16.

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

17.

Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.

Greg Evans

18.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

19.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

20.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

21.

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

Bacon, Francis

22.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

23.

The best answer to anger is silence.

24.

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

George, David Lloyd

25.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

26.

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

27.

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

Fuller, Thomas

28.

One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.

Syrus, Publilius

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.

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

31.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

32.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.

Buddha

35.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

36.

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

37.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

38.

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.

39.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

40.

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

Aristotle

41.

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

Bible

42.

A soft answer truth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger. [Proverbs 15:1]

Bible

43.

Whenever you get red in the face, whenever you raise your voice, whenever you get hot under the collar or angry, rebellious or negative in spirit, then know that the spirit of God is leaving you and the spirit of Satan is beginning to take over.

44.

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

Shakespeare, William

45.

When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

Jefferson, Thomas

46.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

47.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

48.

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

Webster, John

49.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

50.

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