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.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

2.

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

Dyer, Wayne

3.

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

4.

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

5.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

6.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

7.

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

8.

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

Russell, Bertrand

9.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

10.

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

11.

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.

12.

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

Hugo, Victor

13.

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

14.

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

15.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

16.

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

17.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

18.

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

Plato

19.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

20.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

21.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

22.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

23.

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

24.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

25.

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

Mckay, David O.

26.

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

Epictetus

27.

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

Proverb

28.

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

Proverb, Malabar

29.

Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south.

Shakespeare, William

30.

However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

Ellis, Havelock

31.

Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.

Babylonian Talmud

32.

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

Shakespeare, William

33.

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

34.

Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

Akhenaton

35.

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

Dickinson, Emily

36.

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

37.

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.

Fuller, Thomas

38.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

39.

Stay out of the road, if you want to grow old.

Floyd, Pink

40.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

41.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

42.

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

43.

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

Maxim, Samurai

44.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

45.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

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.

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

Shakespeare, William

48.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

49.

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.

50.

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

Churchill, Winston