Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Angelis, Barbara De

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

2.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

3.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

4.

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

Wallenda, Karl

5.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

6.

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

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.

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

Floyd, Pink

9.

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

Renard, Jules

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.

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

Laurence J. Peter

12.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

13.

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

Churchill, Winston

14.

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

Plato

15.

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.

16.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

17.

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

18.

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

Dyer, Wayne

19.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

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

21.

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

22.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

23.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

24.

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

25.

The best answer to anger is silence.

26.

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

Russell, Bertrand

27.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

28.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

29.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

30.

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

Greer, Germaine

31.

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

Sarnoff, David

32.

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

33.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

34.

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

35.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

36.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

37.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

38.

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

Secker, Thomas

39.

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

Quarles, Francis

40.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

41.

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

Proverb

42.

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

43.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

44.

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

Bacon, Francis

45.

What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you.

Dyer, Wayne

46.

Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid at the back of reason, to come to the front when bidden. For once it begins to take control of the mind, it calls just what it does cruelly.

Curtis, George William

47.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

48.

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

49.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

50.

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