Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

2.

I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they

White, Elwyn Brooks

3.

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

4.

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.

Cherie Carter-Scott

5.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

6.

Anger as soon as fed is dead- 'Tis starving makes it fat.

Emily Dickinson

7.

Anger as soon as fed is dead; 'Tis starving makes it fat.

Dickinson, Emily

8.

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

Bible

9.

When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

Jefferson, Thomas

10.

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

11.

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

Aurelius, Marcus

12.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

13.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

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.

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

16.

Act nothing in a furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.

Fuller, Thomas

17.

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

Churchill, Winston

18.

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

Proverb, Malabar

19.

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

20.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

21.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

22.

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

Proverb

23.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.

Buddha

24.

Doomed are the hotheads! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, I'm sorry.

Schuller, Robert H.

25.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

26.

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

Russell, Bertrand

27.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

28.

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

Edwards, Tryon

29.

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

30.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

31.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

32.

Actually, the streets are quite safe today, it's the people on them who aren't.

33.

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

34.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

35.

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

Quarles, Francis

36.

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

Dyer, Wayne

37.

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

Hugo, Victor

38.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

39.

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

Ellis, Havelock

40.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

41.

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

Wallenda, Karl

42.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

43.

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.

44.

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

45.

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

Maxim, Samurai

46.

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

Proverb

47.

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

Fuller, Thomas

48.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

49.

Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south.

Shakespeare, William

50.

I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.

Maxine Waters