Motivational Quotes

Anger

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.

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Best Quotes about Anger

1.

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

Fuller, Thomas

2.

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

Maxim, Samurai

3.

I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they

White, Elwyn Brooks

4.

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

Ruskin, John

5.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

6.

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

Clarendon

7.

Don't play for safety -- it's the most dangerous thing in the world.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

8.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

9.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

10.

No one can make us angry. People can say and do things to us but it is still up to us as individuals to do what we want with our emotions in response to those things.

11.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

12.

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

Wallenda, Karl

13.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

14.

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

Horace

15.

It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and angry woman. [Proverbs 21:19]

Bible

16.

Nothing is so exhilarating in life as to be shot at with no result.

Churchill, Winston

17.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

18.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

19.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

20.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

21.

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

Buddha

22.

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

Mckay, David O.

23.

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

Gracian, Baltasar

24.

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

Joubert, Joseph

25.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

26.

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

27.

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

Pope, Alexander

28.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

29.

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

Fuller, Thomas

30.

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

Secker, Thomas

31.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

33.

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

34.

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

Shakespeare, William

35.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

36.

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

37.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

38.

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

Bible

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.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

41.

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.

42.

A soft answer truth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger. [Proverbs 15:1]

Bible

43.

I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.

Maxine Waters

44.

Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, everyone should be serene, slow-pulsed and calm.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

45.

The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.

George, David Lloyd

46.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

47.

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

Joan Lunden

48.

Anyone can become angry -- that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way -- this is not easy.

Aristotle

49.

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

50.

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

Shakespeare, William