Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Cervantes, Miguel De

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

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

2.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

3.

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

Seneca

4.

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

Proverb, Malabar

5.

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

Floyd, Pink

6.

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

George, David Lloyd

7.

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

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8.

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

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9.

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

10.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

12.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

13.

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

14.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression. [Proverbs 19:11]

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Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

17.

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

18.

My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. [James 1:19-20]

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19.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

20.

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

Maxim, Samurai

21.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

22.

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

Secker, Thomas

23.

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.

24.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

25.

Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

Akhenaton

26.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

27.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

28.

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

Syrus, Publilius

29.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

30.

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

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

Epictetus

32.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

33.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

34.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

35.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

36.

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

Hugo, Victor

37.

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

38.

No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.

Brown, John Mason

39.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

40.

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

Sarnoff, David

41.

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

Russell, Bertrand

42.

There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.

Francis De Sales, St.

43.

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

44.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

45.

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

46.

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

Plato

47.

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

48.

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

Colton, Charles Caleb

49.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

50.

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

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