Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Magnus, Saint Albertus

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Bible

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.

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Dyer, Wayne

10.

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

Fuller, Thomas

11.

Actually, the streets are quite safe today, it's the people on them who aren't.

12.

I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

Barton, Clara

13.

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

Edwards, Tryon

14.

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

Shakespeare, William

15.

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

Angelis, Barbara De

16.

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

17.

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

Mckay, David O.

18.

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

Dickinson, Emily

19.

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

Epictetus

20.

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

21.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

22.

Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.

Tupper, Martin

23.

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

Proverb

24.

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

Mizner, Wilson

25.

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

26.

I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.

Maxine Waters

27.

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

Shakespeare, William

28.

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

29.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

30.

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

Maxim, Samurai

31.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

32.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

33.

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

Bible

34.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

35.

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

36.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

37.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

41.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

42.

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

43.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

44.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

45.

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

46.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

47.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

48.

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

Pope, Alexander

49.

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