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 thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

2.

Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

3.

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

Seneca

4.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

5.

Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.

Baldwin, James

6.

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.

7.

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

Horace

8.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

9.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

10.

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

11.

The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

Landor, Walter Savage

12.

Do not suppress it-that would hurt you inside. Do not express it-this would not only hurt you inside, it would cause ripples in your surroundings. What you do is transform it.

Pilgrim, Peace

13.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

14.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

15.

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

Laurence J. Peter

16.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

17.

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

Webster, John

18.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

19.

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

Proverb, Malabar

20.

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

Angelis, Barbara De

21.

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

Emily Dickinson

22.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

23.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

24.

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

25.

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

George, David Lloyd

26.

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

27.

The best answer to anger is silence.

28.

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

Hugo, Victor

29.

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

Joan Lunden

30.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

31.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

32.

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

33.

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.

34.

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

Proverb

35.

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

Dickinson, Emily

36.

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

Angelou, Maya

37.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

38.

He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.

Magnus, Saint Albertus

39.

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

40.

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

Bible

41.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

42.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

44.

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

Secker, Thomas

45.

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

46.

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

Mario Puzo

47.

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

48.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

49.

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

50.

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

Renard, Jules