Motivational Quotes

Anger

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

- La Fontaine, Jean De

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.

Epictetus

2.

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

Plato

3.

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

4.

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

Maxim, Samurai

5.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

6.

Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

7.

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

8.

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

Proverb

9.

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

10.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

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

Bible

12.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

13.

Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.

Hull, Bobby

14.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

15.

The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.

Freud, Sigmund

16.

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

Boyes, John F.

17.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

18.

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.

19.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

20.

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

21.

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

Churchill, Winston

22.

Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.

Hillard, G. S.

23.

It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.

Riley, James Whitcomb

24.

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]

Bible

25.

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

Greg Evans

26.

Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.

Greer, Germaine

27.

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

Shakespeare, William

28.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

29.

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

30.

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

Epictetus

31.

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

Pope, Alexander

32.

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

George, David Lloyd

33.

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

Mario Puzo

34.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

35.

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

Floyd, Pink

36.

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

Proverb, Malabar

37.

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

Quincey, Thomas De

38.

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

Wallenda, Karl

39.

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

40.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

41.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

42.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

43.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

44.

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

45.

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

46.

Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

Halifax, Edward F.

47.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

48.

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

Fuller, Thomas

49.

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