Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Schuller, Robert H.

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

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

Greg Evans

2.

The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence.

Beecher, Henry Ward

3.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

4.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

5.

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

Mario Puzo

6.

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

Fuller, Thomas

7.

Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.

Shakespeare, William

8.

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.

Colton, Charles Caleb

9.

Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south.

Shakespeare, William

10.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

11.

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

Hugo, Victor

12.

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

13.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

14.

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

Boyes, John F.

15.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

16.

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

Buddha

17.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

18.

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.

19.

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

20.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

21.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

22.

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

Thurber, James

23.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

24.

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

Shakespeare, William

25.

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

Churchill, Winston

26.

The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.

Freud, Sigmund

27.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

28.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

29.

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

Akhenaton

30.

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

Baldwin, James

31.

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

Edwards, Tryon

32.

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

Sarnoff, David

33.

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

Mizner, Wilson

34.

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

35.

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

Proverb

36.

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

Gracian, Baltasar

37.

It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.

Riley, James Whitcomb

38.

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

39.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

40.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

41.

To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.

Watts, Alan W.

42.

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

Quarles, Francis

43.

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

George, David Lloyd

44.

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

Bible

45.

Between the anvil and the hammer.