Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Colton, Charles Caleb

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

Buddha

2.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

3.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

4.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

5.

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.

6.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

7.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

8.

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

Proverb

9.

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

Epictetus

10.

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

Plato

11.

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

Secker, Thomas

12.

I used to store my anger and it affected my play. Now I get it out. I'm never rude to my playing partner. I'm very focused on the ball. Then it's over.

Alfredsson, Helen

13.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

14.

Sticks and stones may break your bones when there's anger to impart. Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart. Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

15.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

16.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

17.

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

Mckay, David O.

18.

Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.

Halifax, Edward F.

19.

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

20.

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

Edwards, Tryon

21.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

22.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

23.

A wave of anger washed over me, anger against myself, at my age at the time, that stupid lyrically age, when a man is too great a riddle to himself to be interested in the riddles outside himself and when other people are mere walking mirrors in which he is amazed to find his own emotions, his own worth.

Kundera, Milan

24.

There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.

Dyer, Wayne

25.

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

26.

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

Proverb

27.

Anger makes dull men witty -- but it keeps them poor.

Bacon, Francis

28.

I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

Colby, Frank Moore

29.

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

Fuller, Thomas

30.

Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.

Wallenda, Karl

31.

Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.

Baldwin, James

32.

Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

Quarles, Francis

33.

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

Quarles, Francis

34.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

38.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

39.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.