Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

2.

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

Shakespeare, William

3.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

4.

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

Harris, Sidney J.

5.

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

Russell, Bertrand

6.

Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. [Ecclesiastes 7:9]

Bible

7.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

8.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

9.

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

Epictetus

10.

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

11.

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.

12.

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

Fuller, Thomas

13.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

14.

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

15.

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.

16.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

17.

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

Greer, Germaine

18.

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

Lucan, F. L.

19.

The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances boldly to meet them head on. The weak man grows agitated. But the superior man stands up to fate, endures resolutely in his inner certainty If ignorant both

I Ching

20.

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

21.

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

Shakespeare, William

22.

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

Seneca

23.

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

Shenstone, William

24.

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

25.

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

Renard, Jules

26.

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

Boyes, John F.

27.

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

Bible

28.

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

Syrus, Publilius

29.

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.

30.

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

Hugo, Victor

31.

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

32.

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

Fuller, Thomas

33.

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

34.

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

Floyd, Pink

35.

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

Dyer, Wayne

36.

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.

37.

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

38.

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

Proverb

39.

When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out -- because that's what's inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside.

Dyer, Wayne

40.

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

Edwards, Tryon

41.

Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.

Beecher, Henry Ward

42.

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

Thurber, James

43.

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

44.

The best answer to anger is silence.

45.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

46.

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

Greg Evans

47.

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

Quincey, Thomas De