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

1.

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

2.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

3.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

4.

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

5.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

6.

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

7.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

8.

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

Dickinson, Emily

9.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

10.

Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, everyone should be serene, slow-pulsed and calm.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

11.

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

Aristotle

12.

The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life.

Maxim, Samurai

13.

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

Dyer, Wayne

14.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

15.

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

Laurence J. Peter

16.

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

Epictetus

17.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

18.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

19.

If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wring, but the coals are.

Beecher, Henry Ward

20.

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

21.

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

Greer, Germaine

22.

I lose my temper, but it's all over in a minute, said the student. So is the hydrogen bomb, I replied. But think of the damage it produces!

Sweeting, George

23.

Anger makes dull men witty -- but it keeps them poor.

Bacon, Francis

24.

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

Bible

25.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

26.

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

Syrus, Publilius

27.

Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. [Ecclesiastes 7:9]

Bible

28.

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

Mizner, Wilson

29.

Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.

Henry Ward Beecher

30.

Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.

Wallenda, Karl

31.

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

Proverb

32.

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

Greg Evans

33.

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

Hugo, Victor

34.

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

Boyes, John F.

35.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

36.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

37.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

38.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

39.

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

Bible

40.

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

Dyer, Wayne

41.

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

42.

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

Mario Puzo

43.

He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.

Proverb

44.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

45.

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

Quincey, Thomas De

46.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

47.

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

48.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

49.

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

50.

By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned; By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned.

Pope, Alexander