Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

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

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

Hugo, Victor

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.

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

Wallenda, Karl

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

10.

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

Seneca

11.

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

Boyes, John F.

12.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

13.

The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.

Lucan, F. L.

14.

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

Laurence J. Peter

15.

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

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One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.

Syrus, Publilius

17.

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

Sarnoff, David

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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

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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

20.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

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

22.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

23.

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

Proverb

24.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

25.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

26.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

27.

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

28.

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

Fuller, Thomas

29.

I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

Barton, Clara

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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

31.

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

Greer, Germaine

32.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

33.

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

Baldwin, James

34.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

35.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

36.

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

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

Proverb

38.

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

Maxim, Samurai

39.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

40.

Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.

Shakespeare, William

41.

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

Renard, Jules

42.

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

43.

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

Bible

44.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

45.

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.

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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

47.

Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.

Halifax, Edward F.

48.

I have seen a peaceful expression turn to anger as fast as a whip cracks, and so the look on the face might mean less than what it seems to be.

Erica Eisdorfer

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

Bible

50.

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