Motivational Quotes

Anger

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

- Chapman, George

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.

Epictetus

2.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

3.

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

Shenstone, William

4.

It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and angry woman. [Proverbs 21:19]

Bible

5.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

6.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

7.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

8.

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

9.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

10.

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

Shakespeare, William

11.

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

12.

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

Greer, Germaine

13.

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

14.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

15.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

16.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

Joubert, Joseph

17.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

18.

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.

19.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

20.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

21.

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

Emily Dickinson

22.

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

23.

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

Epictetus

24.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

25.

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

26.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

27.

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.

28.

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

Wallenda, Karl

29.

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

Aristotle

30.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

31.

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

32.

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

33.

Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.

Mario Puzo

34.

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

Shakespeare, William

35.

I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

Colby, Frank Moore

36.

Nothing is so exhilarating in life as to be shot at with no result.

Churchill, Winston

37.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

38.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

39.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

40.

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

41.

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

42.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

43.

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

Proverb

44.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

45.

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