Motivational Quotes

Anger

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Anger

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

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

Epictetus

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

Floyd, Pink

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

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.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

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

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

Henry Ward Beecher

10.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

11.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

12.

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

Sarnoff, David

13.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

14.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

15.

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

16.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

17.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

18.

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

Dyer, Wayne

19.

A wave of anger washed over me, anger against myself, at my age at the time, that stupid lyrically age, when a man is too great a riddle to himself to be interested in the riddles outside himself and when other people are mere walking mirrors in which he is amazed to find his own emotions, his own worth.

Kundera, Milan

20.

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

Ruskin, John

21.

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

Lucan, F. L.

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A soft answer truth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger. [Proverbs 15:1]

Bible

23.

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

Fuller, Thomas

24.

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

25.

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

26.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

27.

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

Proverb

28.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

29.

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

Shakespeare, William

30.

Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

Akhenaton

31.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

32.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

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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

34.

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Webster, John

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

Seneca

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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

39.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

40.

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

Edwards, Tryon

41.

As the whirlwind in its fury teareth up trees, and deformeth the face of nature, or as an earthquake in its convulsions overturneth whole cities; so the rage of an angry man throweth mischief around him.

Akhenaton

42.

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

Baldwin, James

43.

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

Proverb

44.

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

45.

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.

46.

The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Russell, Bertrand

48.

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.

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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

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Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma