Motivational Quotes

Anger

Depression is rage spread thin.

- Tillich, Paul

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

2.

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

Edwards, Tryon

3.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

4.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

5.

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

Maxim, Samurai

6.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

7.

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

8.

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.

9.

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

Shakespeare, William

10.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

11.

By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned; By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned.

Pope, Alexander

12.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

13.

The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.

Freud, Sigmund

14.

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

Wallenda, Karl

15.

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

16.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.

The best answer to anger is silence.

18.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

19.

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

20.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

21.

When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other.

Gaulle, Charles De

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

25.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

26.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

27.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

28.

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

Greer, Germaine

29.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

30.

The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.

Lucan, F. L.

31.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

32.

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

33.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

34.

Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

35.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

36.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

37.

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

38.

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

39.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

40.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

41.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

42.

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