Motivational Quotes

Anger

Anger is a brief lunacy.

- Horace

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

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

2.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

3.

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

Sarnoff, David

4.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

5.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

6.

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

7.

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

Proverb

8.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

9.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

10.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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.

To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.

Watts, Alan W.

13.

Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.

Halifax, Edward F.

14.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

15.

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

Syrus, Publilius

16.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

17.

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

18.

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

Boyes, John F.

19.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

20.

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

21.

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

Clarendon

22.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

23.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

24.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

25.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Quarles, Francis

26.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

27.

The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.

Ruskin, John

28.

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

Lucan, F. L.

29.

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

30.

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

Bible

31.

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

Mario Puzo

32.

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

33.

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.

34.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

35.

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.

36.

I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.

Maxine Waters

37.

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

Bible

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Webster, John

42.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

43.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

44.

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