Motivational Quotes

Anger

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Best Quotes about Anger

1.

Anger makes dull men witty -- but it keeps them poor.

Bacon, Francis

2.

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

3.

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

Seneca

4.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

5.

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

Shakespeare, William

6.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

7.

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

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.

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

Horace

10.

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

11.

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

Bible

12.

It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.

Riley, James Whitcomb

13.

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

14.

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

Bible

15.

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

Plato

16.

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.

17.

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

Mckay, David O.

18.

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

19.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

20.

The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

Landor, Walter Savage

21.

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.

22.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

23.

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

Secker, Thomas

24.

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

Fuller, Thomas

25.

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

Dyer, Wayne

26.

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.

27.

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

Pope, Alexander

28.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

29.

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

30.

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

31.

I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

Barton, Clara

32.

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

Ruskin, John

33.

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

Shakespeare, William

34.

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

Aristotle

35.

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

Akhenaton

36.

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.

37.

Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. [Ecclesiastes 7:9]

Bible

38.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

39.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

40.

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

Proverb

41.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

42.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Quarles, Francis

43.

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

Mizner, Wilson

44.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

45.

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

46.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

47.

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

Baldwin, James

48.

Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.

Fuller, Thomas

49.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.