Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Anger

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

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

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

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

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

Lucan, F. L.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

10.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

11.

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

12.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

13.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

14.

Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

Akhenaton

15.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

16.

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

Plato

17.

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

18.

Whenever you get red in the face, whenever you raise your voice, whenever you get hot under the collar or angry, rebellious or negative in spirit, then know that the spirit of God is leaving you and the spirit of Satan is beginning to take over.

19.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

20.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

21.

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

Boyes, John F.

22.

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

Churchill, Winston

23.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

24.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

25.

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

Emily Dickinson

26.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

27.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

28.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

29.

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

30.

The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances boldly to meet them head on. The weak man grows agitated. But the superior man stands up to fate, endures resolutely in his inner certainty If ignorant both

I Ching

31.

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

Baldwin, James

32.

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

Churchill, Winston

33.

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

34.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

35.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

36.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

37.

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

Epictetus

38.

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.

39.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

40.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

41.

It is better to do thine own duty, however lacking in merit, than to do that of another, even though efficiently. It is better to die doing one's own duty, for to do the duty of another is fraught with danger.

Bhagavad Gita

42.

The best answer to anger is silence.

43.

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

Angelou, Maya

44.

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

Harris, Sidney J.

45.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

46.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

47.

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

Shakespeare, William

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No one can make us angry. People can say and do things to us but it is still up to us as individuals to do what we want with our emotions in response to those things.

49.

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

Syrus, Publilius

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As the whirlwind in its fury teareth up trees, and deformeth the face of nature, or as an earthquake in its convulsions overturneth whole cities; so the rage of an angry man throweth mischief around him.

Akhenaton