Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

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

2.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

3.

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

George, David Lloyd

4.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

5.

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

6.

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

7.

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.

8.

Scornful men bring a city into a snare, but wise men turn away wrath. [Proverbs 29:8]

Bible

9.

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

10.

Stay out of the road, if you want to grow old.

Floyd, Pink

11.

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

Plato

12.

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

Hugo, Victor

13.

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.

14.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

15.

A soft answer truth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger. [Proverbs 15:1]

Bible

16.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

17.

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.

18.

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

Epictetus

19.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

20.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

21.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

22.

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

Akhenaton

23.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

24.

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

Webster, John

25.

Anger is one letter short of danger, Greatest remedy for anger is delay

26.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

27.

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

Ruskin, John

28.

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

Sarnoff, David

29.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

30.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

31.

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

Colton, Charles Caleb

32.

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

33.

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

Renard, Jules

34.

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

Bible

35.

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

36.

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

37.

Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.

Hull, Bobby

38.

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

Fuller, Thomas

39.

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

40.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

41.

The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them. [Proverbs 12:6]

Bible

42.

No one is as angry as the person who is wrong.

Proverb

43.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.