Motivational Quotes

Anger

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.

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

2.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

3.

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

4.

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

5.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

6.

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

7.

Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.

Tupper, Martin

8.

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

9.

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

10.

Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

11.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

12.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

13.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

14.

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

Plato

15.

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

16.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Seneca

20.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

21.

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

22.

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

Shakespeare, William

23.

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

24.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

25.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

26.

The best answer to anger is silence.

27.

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

Shakespeare, William

28.

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

29.

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

Boyes, John F.

30.

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

Renard, Jules

31.

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

32.

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

Thurber, James

33.

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

Bible

34.

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

Horace

35.

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

Greer, Germaine

36.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

37.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

38.

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

39.

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.

40.

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

41.

The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong.

Mizner, Wilson

42.

When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out -- because that's what's inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside.

Dyer, Wayne

43.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

44.

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

Greg Evans

45.

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

Wallenda, Karl

46.

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

Syrus, Publilius

47.

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

48.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

49.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

50.

To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.

Watts, Alan W.