Motivational Quotes

Anger

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.

- Colton, Charles Caleb

Best Quotes about Anger

Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.

Henry, M.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.

Antonius, Marcus

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Hugo, Victor

The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

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

Bible

10.

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

11.

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

Boyes, John F.

12.

The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.

Freud, Sigmund

13.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

14.

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

Ruskin, John

15.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

16.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

17.

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

Baldwin, James

18.

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

Ellis, Havelock

19.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

20.

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.

21.

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.

22.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

23.

There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.

Webster, John

24.

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

Plato

25.

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

Bible

26.

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

27.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

28.

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

29.

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

Secker, Thomas

30.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

31.

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

Angelou, Maya

32.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

33.

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

Shakespeare, William

34.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

35.

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

36.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

37.

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

38.

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

Fuller, Thomas

39.

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

Churchill, Winston

40.

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

41.

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

Shakespeare, William

42.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

43.

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

Buddha

44.

The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence.

Beecher, Henry Ward

45.

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

Russell, Bertrand

46.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

47.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

48.

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