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 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

2.

Act nothing in a furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.

Fuller, Thomas

3.

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

4.

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

Bible

5.

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

Renard, Jules

6.

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

Maxim, Samurai

7.

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

Greg Evans

8.

Nothing is so exhilarating in life as to be shot at with no result.

Churchill, Winston

9.

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

Shenstone, William

10.

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

Syrus, Publilius

11.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

12.

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

Shakespeare, William

13.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

14.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

15.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

16.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

17.

Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

Halifax, Edward F.

18.

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

Laurence J. Peter

19.

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

Shakespeare, William

20.

Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

Quarles, Francis

21.

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

Mckay, David O.

22.

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

Bible

23.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Quarles, Francis

29.

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

Secker, Thomas

30.

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.

31.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

32.

Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.

Beecher, Henry Ward

33.

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

Bible

34.

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

Webster, John

35.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

39.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

40.

The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.

Lucan, F. L.

41.

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

Bacon, Francis

42.

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.

43.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

44.

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

45.

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

George, David Lloyd

46.

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

Boyes, John F.

47.

The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.

Freud, Sigmund

48.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.