Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

2.

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

3.

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

Proverb

4.

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

5.

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

Angelou, Maya

6.

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

Bible

7.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

8.

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

9.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

10.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

11.

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

Churchill, Winston

12.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

13.

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

Dyer, Wayne

14.

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

Proverb

15.

The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.

Long, Haniel

16.

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

Greer, Germaine

17.

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

18.

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

Bible

19.

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

Shenstone, William

20.

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

Shakespeare, William

21.

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

22.

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

Syrus, Publilius

23.

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

Fuller, Thomas

24.

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

Thurber, James

25.

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

Dyer, Wayne

26.

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

27.

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.

Colton, Charles Caleb

28.

We are confronted by a first danger, the destructiveness of applied atomic energy. And then we are confronted by a second danger, that we do not enough appreciate the first danger.

Swing, Raymond G.

29.

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

30.

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

Buddha

31.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

32.

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

33.

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

Wallenda, Karl

34.

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

35.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

36.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

37.

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

George, David Lloyd

38.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

39.

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

40.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

41.

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

Shakespeare, William

42.

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

43.

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

Proverb

44.

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

Ruskin, John

45.

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

Dickinson, Emily

46.

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