Motivational Quotes

Anger

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

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

Maxim, Samurai

2.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

3.

Nothing is so exhilarating in life as to be shot at with no result.

Churchill, Winston

4.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

5.

Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

6.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

7.

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.

8.

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

Greer, Germaine

9.

The best answer to anger is silence.

10.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

11.

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

12.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

13.

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

Akhenaton

14.

There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.

Francis De Sales, St.

15.

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

Bible

16.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

17.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

18.

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

Shenstone, William

19.

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

Proverb

20.

Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.

Mario Puzo

21.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

22.

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

Fuller, Thomas

23.

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

24.

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

Plato

25.

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

Renard, Jules

26.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

27.

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.

28.

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

29.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

30.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

31.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

35.

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

Russell, Bertrand

36.

Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.

Fuller, Thomas

37.

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

Emily Dickinson

38.

Sticks and stones may break your bones when there's anger to impart. Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart. Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

39.

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

Shaw, George Bernard

40.

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

41.

Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.

Buddha

42.

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

Thurber, James

43.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

44.

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

45.

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

Baldwin, James

46.

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

Mizner, Wilson

47.

Let not the sun go down upon your wrath. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

48.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.