Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

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

Shakespeare, William

2.

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

Mario Puzo

3.

There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.

Dyer, Wayne

4.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

5.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

6.

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

Edwards, Tryon

7.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

8.

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

Ruskin, John

9.

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

Bible

10.

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

11.

He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.

Magnus, Saint Albertus

12.

Danger -- if you meet it promptly and without flinching -- you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Churchill, Winston

13.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

14.

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

15.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

16.

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

George, David Lloyd

17.

The broad general rule is that a man is about as big as the things that make him angry.

18.

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

Freud, Sigmund

19.

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

20.

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

Joan Lunden

21.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

22.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

23.

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

24.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

25.

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

Plato

26.

It is better to do thine own duty, however lacking in merit, than to do that of another, even though efficiently. It is better to die doing one's own duty, for to do the duty of another is fraught with danger.

Bhagavad Gita

27.

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

Hugo, Victor

28.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

29.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

Anyone can become angry -- that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way -- this is not easy.

Aristotle

31.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

32.

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

Boyes, John F.

33.

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

Epictetus

34.

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

Renard, Jules

35.

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

Webster, John

36.

The best answer to anger is silence.

37.

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

Aurelius, Marcus

38.

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

39.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

40.

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

41.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

42.

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

Fuller, Thomas

43.

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

Mizner, Wilson

44.

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.

45.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

46.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

47.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

48.

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