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

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

A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied with small gains, which will come by creative adaptations.

I Ching

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

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

Thurber, James

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

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

Edwards, Tryon

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

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

Shakespeare, William

Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. [Ecclesiastes 7:9]

Bible

10.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

11.

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

Sarnoff, David

12.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

13.

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

Horace

14.

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

Bible

15.

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

Boyes, John F.

16.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Malcolm X

17.

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

Akhenaton

18.

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

Dyer, Wayne

19.

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

Mizner, Wilson

20.

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

21.

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

Bible

22.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

23.

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

24.

The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence.

Beecher, Henry Ward

25.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

26.

However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

Ellis, Havelock

27.

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

28.

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

Fuller, Thomas

29.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

30.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

Carlyle, Thomas

31.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

32.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

33.

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

34.

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

Proverb

35.

Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

36.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

37.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

38.

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

39.

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

Bible

40.

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

41.

The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

42.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian