Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Lucan, F. L.

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

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

George, David Lloyd

2.

The best answer to anger is silence.

3.

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

4.

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

Emily Dickinson

5.

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

Horace

6.

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.

7.

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

8.

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

Proverb

9.

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

Ruskin, John

10.

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

11.

The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

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

Maxim, Samurai

13.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

14.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

15.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

16.

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.

17.

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

Mckay, David O.

18.

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

19.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

20.

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

Let not the sun go down upon your wrath. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

22.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

23.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

24.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

25.

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

Bible

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Joubert, Joseph

29.

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.

30.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

31.

No one can make us angry. People can say and do things to us but it is still up to us as individuals to do what we want with our emotions in response to those things.

32.

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

Fuller, Thomas

33.

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

34.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

35.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

36.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

37.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

38.

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

Webster, John

39.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

40.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

41.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

42.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

43.

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

Aristotle

44.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

45.

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.

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

49.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

50.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De