Motivational Quotes

Anger

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.

Best Quotes about Anger

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.

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

Renard, Jules

Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Dickinson, Emily

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.

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

Angelou, Maya

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

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

Boyes, John F.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

10.

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

11.

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

Freud, Sigmund

12.

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

Seneca

13.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

14.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

15.

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

Bible

16.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

17.

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

Russell, Bertrand

18.

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

Lucan, F. L.

19.

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

20.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

21.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

22.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

23.

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

24.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

25.

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

26.

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

Hugo, Victor

27.

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

28.

Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.

Hull, Bobby

29.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

30.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

31.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

32.

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

Sarnoff, David

33.

Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.

Greer, Germaine

34.

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

Proverb

35.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

36.

No one is as angry as the person who is wrong.

Proverb

37.

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

Mario Puzo

38.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

39.

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

40.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

41.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

42.

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

43.

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

Greg Evans

44.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

45.

It is better to do thine own duty, however lacking in merit, than to do that of another, even though efficiently. It is better to die doing one's own duty, for to do the duty of another is fraught with danger.

Bhagavad Gita

46.

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

47.

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

48.

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

Ellis, Havelock

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Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.