Motivational Quotes

Anger

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.

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

2.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

3.

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

4.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

5.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

6.

Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.

Greg Evans

7.

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.

8.

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

Proverb

9.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

10.

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

Horace

11.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

12.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

13.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

14.

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

Bible

15.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

16.

In time of danger it is proper to be alarmed until danger be near at hand; but when we perceive that danger is near, we should oppose it as if we were not afraid.

Hitopadesa

17.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

22.

The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances boldly to meet them head on. The weak man grows agitated. But the superior man stands up to fate, endures resolutely in his inner certainty If ignorant both

I Ching

23.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

24.

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.

25.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Angelou, Maya

26.

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

Fuller, Thomas

27.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

28.

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

Thurber, James

29.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

30.

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

Mario Puzo

31.

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

32.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

33.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

34.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

35.

Actually, the streets are quite safe today, it's the people on them who aren't.

36.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

37.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

38.

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

Bible

39.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

40.

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

Bible

41.

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

42.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

43.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

44.

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.

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Seneca

48.

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