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

Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.

Cervantes, Miguel De

When you meet up with a disagreeable person, never allow yourself to be upset. Say to yourself,if a dowdy like that can stand himself all his life, surely I can stand him for a few minutes.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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

Dyer, Wayne

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

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

Proverb

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

Bible

10.

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

11.

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

12.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

13.

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

14.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

15.

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

16.

Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, everyone should be serene, slow-pulsed and calm.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

17.

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

George, David Lloyd

18.

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.

19.

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

20.

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

Seneca

21.

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

22.

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

Mario Puzo

23.

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

24.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

25.

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

Churchill, Winston

26.

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

Proverb, Malabar

27.

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

Renard, Jules

28.

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

Proverb

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

32.

I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

Colby, Frank Moore

33.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

34.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

35.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

36.

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

Churchill, Winston

37.

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

Plato

38.

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

Bible

39.

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

40.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

41.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

42.

If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wring, but the coals are.

Beecher, Henry Ward

43.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

44.

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.

45.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

46.

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.

47.

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.

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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

49.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

50.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward