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

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

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

Baldwin, James

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

Laurence J. Peter

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Akhenaton

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Secker, Thomas

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

10.

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

11.

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

13.

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.

14.

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

15.

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

Ellis, Havelock

16.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

17.

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

Shenstone, William

18.

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

Bible

19.

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.

20.

Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.

Antonius, Marcus

21.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

22.

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

Bible

23.

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

24.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

25.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

26.

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

Buddha

27.

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

Bible

28.

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

29.

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.

30.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

31.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

32.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

33.

The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.

Long, Haniel

34.

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

35.

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

Horace

36.

Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

37.

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

Freud, Sigmund

38.

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

Bacon, Francis

39.

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.

Colton, Charles Caleb

40.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

41.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

42.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

43.

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

Plato

44.

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

45.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

46.

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

Shaw, George Bernard

47.

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.

48.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

49.

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

50.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca