Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Anger

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

I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.

Maxine Waters

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

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

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

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.

10.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

11.

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

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.

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

Edwards, Tryon

14.

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

15.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

16.

However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

Ellis, Havelock

17.

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

Bible

18.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

19.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

20.

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

Syrus, Publilius

21.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

22.

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

Epictetus

23.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.

Buddha

24.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

25.

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

26.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

27.

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

Webster, John

28.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

29.

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

Dickinson, Emily

30.

Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.

Mckay, David O.

31.

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

32.

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

33.

Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.

Babylonian Talmud

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.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

36.

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

37.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

38.

All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.

Paley, Babe

39.

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

Shakespeare, William

40.

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

Shakespeare, William

41.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

42.

Whenever you get red in the face, whenever you raise your voice, whenever you get hot under the collar or angry, rebellious or negative in spirit, then know that the spirit of God is leaving you and the spirit of Satan is beginning to take over.

43.

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

Dyer, Wayne

44.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

45.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

46.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos