Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

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

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

Hugo, Victor

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

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Henry Ward Beecher

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

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

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

Shakespeare, William

What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you.

Dyer, Wayne

10.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Proverb

11.

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.

12.

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

Ruskin, John

13.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

14.

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

15.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

16.

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

17.

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

Fuller, Thomas

18.

The broad general rule is that a man is about as big as the things that make him angry.

19.

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

20.

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.

21.

It is better to do thine own duty, however lacking in merit, than to do that of another, even though efficiently. It is better to die doing one's own duty, for to do the duty of another is fraught with danger.

Bhagavad Gita

22.

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

23.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

24.

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

25.

Doomed are the hotheads! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, I'm sorry.

Schuller, Robert H.

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

30.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

31.

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

Plato

32.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.

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

Proverb

34.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

35.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

36.

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

Proverb

37.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

38.

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

39.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

40.

One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.

Syrus, Publilius

41.

To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.

Edwards, Tryon

42.

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

Secker, Thomas

43.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

44.

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

45.

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

46.

Anger as soon as fed is dead- 'Tis starving makes it fat.

Emily Dickinson

47.

Whenever you get red in the face, whenever you raise your voice, whenever you get hot under the collar or angry, rebellious or negative in spirit, then know that the spirit of God is leaving you and the spirit of Satan is beginning to take over.

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.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

50.

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