Motivational Quotes

Anger

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

- La Fontaine, Jean De

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

2.

Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.

Fuller, Thomas

3.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

4.

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

Emily Dickinson

5.

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

6.

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

Boyes, John F.

7.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

8.

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

Laurence J. Peter

9.

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

Fuller, Thomas

10.

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

11.

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

Buddha

12.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

13.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

14.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

15.

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

Joan Lunden

16.

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

Angelou, Maya

17.

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

18.

My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. [James 1:19-20]

Bible

19.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

20.

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

Ellis, Havelock

21.

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

Floyd, Pink

22.

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

Sarnoff, David

23.

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

Pope, Alexander

24.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

25.

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

26.

Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.

Wallenda, Karl

27.

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

Ruskin, John

28.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

29.

He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.

Magnus, Saint Albertus

30.

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

Proverb

31.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

32.

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

33.

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

Shakespeare, William

34.

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

Bible

35.

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

Joubert, Joseph

36.

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

37.

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

Colton, Charles Caleb

38.

I have seen a peaceful expression turn to anger as fast as a whip cracks, and so the look on the face might mean less than what it seems to be.

Erica Eisdorfer

39.

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

Proverb

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

43.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

44.

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