Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Walpole, Sir Hugh

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

2.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

3.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

4.

The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

5.

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

Russell, Bertrand

6.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

7.

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

Horace

8.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

9.

To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.

Watts, Alan W.

10.

Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.

Beecher, Henry Ward

11.

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.

12.

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

Fuller, Thomas

13.

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

Mario Puzo

14.

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

15.

The best answer to anger is silence.

16.

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

17.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Malcolm X

18.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

19.

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

20.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

21.

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

Maxim, Samurai

22.

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

Quarles, Francis

23.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

24.

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

Proverb, Malabar

25.

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

Pope, Alexander

26.

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

27.

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

Thurber, James

28.

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

Hugo, Victor

29.

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

Shenstone, William

30.

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

31.

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

Ellis, Havelock

32.

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.

33.

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.

34.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

35.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

36.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

37.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

38.

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

39.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

40.

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

George, David Lloyd

41.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

42.

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

Bible

43.

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

44.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

45.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

46.

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

Floyd, Pink

47.

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

Shakespeare, William

48.

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

49.

If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself:'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.'When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.

Epictetus

50.

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

Joubert, Joseph