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

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Fuller, Thomas

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

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

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

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

Russell, Bertrand

10.

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

Proverb, Malabar

12.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

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

Bible

14.

Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.

Hull, Bobby

15.

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

George, David Lloyd

16.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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.

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

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Shenstone, William

22.

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

Dyer, Wayne

23.

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

24.

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

Dyer, Wayne

25.

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

26.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

28.

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

Shakespeare, William

29.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

30.

Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.

Henry Ward Beecher

31.

Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

Halifax, Edward F.

32.

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

Renard, Jules

33.

He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

Plato

34.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

35.

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

Greg Evans

36.

I used to store my anger and it affected my play. Now I get it out. I'm never rude to my playing partner. I'm very focused on the ball. Then it's over.

Alfredsson, Helen

37.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

38.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

39.

When you meet up with a disagreeable person, never allow yourself to be upset. Say to yourself,if a dowdy like that can stand himself all his life, surely I can stand him for a few minutes.

40.

Anger makes dull men witty -- but it keeps them poor.

Bacon, Francis

41.

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.

42.

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

43.

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

Greer, Germaine

44.

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

45.

The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong.

Mizner, Wilson

46.

If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.

Epictetus

47.

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

48.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

49.

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

50.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace