Motivational Quotes

Anger

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

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

Ruskin, John

2.

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

Emily Dickinson

3.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

4.

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

Renard, Jules

5.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

6.

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

Joubert, Joseph

7.

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

Hugo, Victor

8.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

9.

Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.

Baldwin, James

10.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

11.

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

Aurelius, Marcus

12.

To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.

Watts, Alan W.

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

17.

All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.

Paley, Babe

18.

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

Proverb

19.

Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

20.

The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.

Long, Haniel

21.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

22.

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

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.

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

25.

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

Buddha

26.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

27.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

28.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

29.

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

Plato

30.

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

31.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

32.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

33.

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

Secker, Thomas

34.

The best answer to anger is silence.

35.

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.

36.

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.

37.

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

Webster, John

38.

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

Dyer, Wayne

39.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

40.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

41.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

42.

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

Bacon, Francis

43.

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

Gracian, Baltasar

44.

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

45.

Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

Seneca

46.

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

Wallenda, Karl

47.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

48.

Do not suppress it-that would hurt you inside. Do not express it-this would not only hurt you inside, it would cause ripples in your surroundings. What you do is transform it.

Pilgrim, Peace

49.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

50.

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

Harris, Sidney J.