Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Ruskin, John

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

2.

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.

3.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

4.

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

5.

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

6.

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

7.

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

Mizner, Wilson

8.

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

Proverb, Malabar

9.

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

10.

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

Shakespeare, William

11.

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

12.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

13.

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

Fuller, Thomas

14.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

15.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

16.

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

Secker, Thomas

17.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

18.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

19.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

20.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

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

Dyer, Wayne

22.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

23.

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.

24.

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

Buddha

25.

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

26.

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

Baldwin, James

27.

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.

28.

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

Clarendon

29.

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

30.

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

Greg Evans

31.

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

Quarles, Francis

32.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

33.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

34.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

35.

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

Horace

36.

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

37.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

38.

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

39.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

40.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

41.

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

Plato

42.

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

Boyes, John F.

43.

The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

44.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

45.

The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.

George, David Lloyd

46.

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

47.

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

Greer, Germaine

48.

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

Lucan, F. L.

49.

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

50.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

Joubert, Joseph