Motivational Quotes

Anger

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

- La Fontaine, Jean De

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

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

2.

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

3.

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

Lucan, F. L.

4.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

5.

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

Bible

6.

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

Buddha

7.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

8.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

9.

Doomed are the hotheads! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, I'm sorry.

Schuller, Robert H.

10.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

11.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

12.

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

13.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

14.

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

Laurence J. Peter

15.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

16.

As the whirlwind in its fury teareth up trees, and deformeth the face of nature, or as an earthquake in its convulsions overturneth whole cities; so the rage of an angry man throweth mischief around him.

Akhenaton

17.

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

18.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

19.

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

Mario Puzo

20.

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

21.

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

Floyd, Pink

22.

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

23.

What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you.

Dyer, Wayne

24.

Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south.

Shakespeare, William

25.

The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression. [Proverbs 19:11]

Bible

26.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

27.

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.

Colton, Charles Caleb

28.

Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.

Mckay, David O.

29.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

30.

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

Emily Dickinson

31.

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

32.

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

33.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

34.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

35.

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

Joubert, Joseph

36.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

37.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

38.

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

39.

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

Shakespeare, William

40.

Anyone can become angry -- that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way -- this is not easy.

Aristotle

41.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

42.

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

Fuller, Thomas

43.

A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied with small gains, which will come by creative adaptations.

I Ching

44.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

45.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

46.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

47.

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