Motivational Quotes

Anger

There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.

- Webster, John

Best Quotes about Anger

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

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

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Quarles, Francis

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Ruskin, John

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

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

10.

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

Russell, Bertrand

11.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

12.

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

George, David Lloyd

13.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

14.

The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them. [Proverbs 12:6]

Bible

15.

As the whirlwind in its fury teareth up trees, and deformeth the face of nature, or as an earthquake in its convulsions overturneth whole cities; so the rage of an angry man throweth mischief around him.

Akhenaton

16.

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

17.

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

Sarnoff, David

18.

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

19.

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.

20.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

21.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

22.

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

Proverb

23.

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.

24.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

25.

Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

26.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

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

Bible

28.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Bible

32.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

33.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

34.

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

Thurber, James

35.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

36.

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

37.

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

38.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

39.

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.

40.

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

Mario Puzo

41.

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

Greg Evans

42.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

43.

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

Shenstone, William

44.

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

45.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

46.

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

47.

The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

48.

Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.

Buddha

49.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

50.

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

Ellis, Havelock