Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

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

Proverb, Malabar

In time of danger it is proper to be alarmed until danger be near at hand; but when we perceive that danger is near, we should oppose it as if we were not afraid.

Hitopadesa

He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

Plato

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

Proverb

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Mario Puzo

10.

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

11.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

12.

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

George, David Lloyd

13.

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

Seneca

14.

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

Emily Dickinson

15.

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

Quarles, Francis

16.

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

Shakespeare, William

17.

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

Sarnoff, David

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Churchill, Winston

21.

Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.

Hull, Bobby

22.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

23.

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

24.

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

Greer, Germaine

25.

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

Bible

26.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

Jefferson, Thomas

28.

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

Shaw, George Bernard

29.

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.

30.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

31.

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

Proverb

32.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

33.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

34.

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

Churchill, Winston

35.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

36.

Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.

Hillard, G. S.

37.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

38.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

39.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

Carlyle, Thomas

40.

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

41.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

42.

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

Greg Evans

43.

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

44.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

45.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

46.

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

47.

It is better to do thine own duty, however lacking in merit, than to do that of another, even though efficiently. It is better to die doing one's own duty, for to do the duty of another is fraught with danger.

Bhagavad Gita

48.

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

Dyer, Wayne

49.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

50.

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.