Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Syrus, Publilius

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

2.

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

3.

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

Dickinson, Emily

4.

Let not the sun go down upon your wrath. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

5.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

6.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

7.

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

8.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

9.

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

Laurence J. Peter

10.

The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.

Ruskin, John

11.

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

Plato

12.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

13.

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

14.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

15.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

16.

There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.

Francis De Sales, St.

17.

He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.

Proverb

18.

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

Hugo, Victor

19.

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

Mario Puzo

20.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

21.

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

Hull, Bobby

22.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

23.

The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

24.

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

Shakespeare, William

25.

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

Shenstone, William

26.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

27.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

28.

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

Shakespeare, William

29.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Dyer, Wayne

34.

Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.

Henry, M.

35.

I used to store my anger and it affected my play. Now I get it out. I'm never rude to my playing partner. I'm very focused on the ball. Then it's over.

Alfredsson, Helen

36.

To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.

Edwards, Tryon

37.

Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

38.

Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.

Baldwin, James

39.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

40.

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

41.

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

Proverb

42.

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

Fuller, Thomas

43.

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

44.

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.

Cherie Carter-Scott

45.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

46.

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

47.

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

Buddha

48.

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

49.

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

50.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius