Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Proverb, Malabar

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Epictetus

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

Syrus, Publilius

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Buddha

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

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

10.

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

11.

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

Lucan, F. L.

12.

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

Wallenda, Karl

13.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

14.

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

15.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

16.

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.

17.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

18.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

19.

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

Secker, Thomas

20.

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

Bible

21.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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.

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

Fuller, Thomas

24.

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.

25.

Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.

Greg Evans

26.

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

Pope, Alexander

27.

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

28.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

29.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

30.

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

Fuller, Thomas

31.

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

Bible

32.

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

Shakespeare, William

33.

The best answer to anger is silence.

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Mckay, David O.

37.

Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.

Henry, M.

38.

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

Ruskin, John

39.

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

40.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

41.

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

Bible

42.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

43.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

44.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

45.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

46.

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

Horace

47.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

48.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

49.

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

50.

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

Maxim, Samurai