Motivational Quotes

Anger

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

- Chapman, George

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Dickinson, Emily

Scornful men bring a city into a snare, but wise men turn away wrath. [Proverbs 29:8]

Bible

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

Quincey, Thomas De

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

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

Hugo, Victor

The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.

George, David Lloyd

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

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

10.

Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much; such men are dangerous. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

11.

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

12.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

13.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

14.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

15.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

16.

By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned; By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned.

Pope, Alexander

17.

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

Wallenda, Karl

18.

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

Edwards, Tryon

19.

Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.

Hull, Bobby

20.

Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. [Ecclesiastes 7:9]

Bible

21.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

22.

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

23.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

24.

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

25.

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

26.

The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.

Ruskin, John

27.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

28.

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

Greer, Germaine

29.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

30.

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

Buddha

31.

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

Seneca

32.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

33.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

34.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

35.

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

36.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

37.

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

Bible

38.

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

Renard, Jules

39.

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

Joubert, Joseph

40.

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

41.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

42.

Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.

Henry Ward Beecher

43.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

44.

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

45.

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

46.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

47.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Angelou, Maya

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Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.