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

1.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

2.

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

Bible

3.

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

Pope, Alexander

4.

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

Shenstone, William

5.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

6.

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

Edwards, Tryon

7.

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.

8.

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

Freud, Sigmund

9.

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

Bacon, Francis

10.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

11.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

12.

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

13.

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

Dickinson, Emily

14.

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

Colton, Charles Caleb

15.

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

Hugo, Victor

16.

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.

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

Emily Dickinson

18.

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

Fuller, Thomas

19.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

20.

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

Angelou, Maya

21.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

22.

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

23.

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

Secker, Thomas

24.

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

Joan Lunden

25.

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

26.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

27.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

29.

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

30.

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

31.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

32.

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

Thurber, James

33.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

34.

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

35.

In time of danger it is proper to be alarmed until danger be near at hand; but when we perceive that danger is near, we should oppose it as if we were not afraid.

Hitopadesa

36.

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

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.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

39.

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

Bible

40.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

41.

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.

42.

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

Boyes, John F.

43.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

44.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

45.

Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.

Mario Puzo

46.

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

47.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

48.

I lose my temper, but it's all over in a minute, said the student. So is the hydrogen bomb, I replied. But think of the damage it produces!

Sweeting, George

49.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

50.

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