Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Proverb, Malabar

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

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.

2.

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

Dyer, Wayne

3.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

4.

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

5.

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

Webster, John

6.

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

Maxim, Samurai

7.

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

Angelis, Barbara De

8.

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

Syrus, Publilius

9.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Thurber, James

13.

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.

14.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

15.

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

Fuller, Thomas

16.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

17.

Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

Halifax, Edward F.

18.

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

Bible

19.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

20.

I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

Colby, Frank Moore

21.

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

Bible

22.

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

Emily Dickinson

23.

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

Dickinson, Emily

24.

When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

Jefferson, Thomas

25.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

26.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

27.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

28.

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

Plato

29.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

30.

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

31.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

32.

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

33.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

34.

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

Akhenaton

35.

It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and angry woman. [Proverbs 21:19]

Bible

36.

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

Laurence J. Peter

37.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

38.

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

Ruskin, John

39.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

40.

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.

41.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

42.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

43.

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

Edwards, Tryon

44.

When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out -- because that's what's inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside.

Dyer, Wayne

45.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Proverb

46.

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.

47.

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.

48.

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

49.

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

Russell, Bertrand

50.

I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they

White, Elwyn Brooks