Motivational Quotes

Anger

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

- Shenstone, William

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

2.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

3.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

4.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

5.

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

Fuller, Thomas

6.

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

7.

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

Hugo, Victor

8.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

9.

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

Harris, Sidney J.

10.

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

Quarles, Francis

11.

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

Mckay, David O.

12.

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

George, David Lloyd

13.

My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. [James 1:19-20]

Bible

14.

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

Greg Evans

15.

Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.

Halifax, Edward F.

16.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

17.

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

18.

Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

Proverb, Malabar

19.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

20.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

21.

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

Ellis, Havelock

22.

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

Maxim, Samurai

23.

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

24.

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

25.

I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

Barton, Clara

26.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Churchill, Winston

30.

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.

31.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

34.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

35.

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

36.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

37.

Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.

Antonius, Marcus

38.

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

Pope, Alexander

39.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

40.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

41.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

42.

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

43.

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

Floyd, Pink

44.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Angelou, Maya

45.

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

Shakespeare, William

46.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

47.

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

Seneca

48.

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

49.

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.

Malcolm X

50.

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.