Motivational Quotes

Anger

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

- Horace

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

Barton, Clara

2.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

3.

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

Fuller, Thomas

4.

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.

5.

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

6.

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.

7.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

8.

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

9.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

10.

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

Secker, Thomas

11.

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

12.

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

Bible

13.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

14.

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.

15.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

16.

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

Laurence J. Peter

17.

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

18.

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

19.

Scornful men bring a city into a snare, but wise men turn away wrath. [Proverbs 29:8]

Bible

20.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

21.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

22.

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

23.

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

Edwards, Tryon

24.

If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wring, but the coals are.

Beecher, Henry Ward

25.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

26.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

27.

Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.

Tupper, Martin

28.

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

Epictetus

29.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

30.

The best answer to anger is silence.

31.

The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life.

Maxim, Samurai

32.

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

Pope, Alexander

33.

Stay out of the road, if you want to grow old.

Floyd, Pink

34.

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

Greer, Germaine

35.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

36.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

37.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

38.

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.

39.

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

Shakespeare, William

40.

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

Thurber, James

41.

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

George, David Lloyd

42.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

43.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

44.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

45.

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

46.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

47.

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

Shaw, George Bernard

48.

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

Webster, John

49.

A wave of anger washed over me, anger against myself, at my age at the time, that stupid lyrically age, when a man is too great a riddle to himself to be interested in the riddles outside himself and when other people are mere walking mirrors in which he is amazed to find his own emotions, his own worth.

Kundera, Milan

50.

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.