Motivational Quotes

Anger

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Buddha

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

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

Ellis, Havelock

One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Lucan, F. L.

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

10.

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

11.

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

Pope, Alexander

12.

The best answer to anger is silence.

13.

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

Bible

14.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

15.

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

Horace

16.

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

Fuller, Thomas

17.

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

18.

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

Proverb

19.

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

20.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

21.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

22.

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

23.

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

Proverb, Malabar

24.

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.

25.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

26.

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

27.

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

28.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Quarles, Francis

29.

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

Hull, Bobby

30.

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

31.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Angelou, Maya

32.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

33.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

34.

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

35.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

36.

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

37.

Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.

Hillard, G. S.

38.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

39.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

40.

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

Laurence J. Peter

41.

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

42.

Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. [Ecclesiastes 7:9]

Bible

43.

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

44.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

45.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Malcolm X

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.

Danger -- if you meet it promptly and without flinching -- you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Churchill, Winston

48.

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

Boyes, John F.

49.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

50.

In time of danger it is proper to be alarmed until danger be near at hand; but when we perceive that danger is near, we should oppose it as if we were not afraid.

Hitopadesa