Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

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

2.

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

3.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

4.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

5.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

6.

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.

7.

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

Quarles, Francis

8.

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

9.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

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

Bible

11.

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

Bible

12.

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

Syrus, Publilius

13.

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

Pope, Alexander

14.

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

Dyer, Wayne

15.

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

Webster, John

16.

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

Seneca

17.

Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

Seneca

18.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

19.

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

Russell, Bertrand

20.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.

Lucan, F. L.

22.

Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south.

Shakespeare, William

23.

The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong.

Mizner, Wilson

24.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

25.

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

Epictetus

26.

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.

27.

Danger -- if you meet it promptly and without flinching -- you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Churchill, Winston

28.

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

29.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

30.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

31.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

32.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

33.

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

Dickinson, Emily

34.

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

Shenstone, William

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Mckay, David O.

38.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

39.

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

Renard, Jules

40.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

44.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

45.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

46.

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

47.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

48.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

49.

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

Laurence J. Peter

50.

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