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

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Epictetus

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

Plato

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied with small gains, which will come by creative adaptations.

I Ching

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

Proverb

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

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

10.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

11.

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

12.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

13.

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

Shakespeare, William

14.

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

15.

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.

16.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

17.

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

Bible

18.

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

19.

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

Freud, Sigmund

20.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

21.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

22.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

23.

Let not the sun go down upon your wrath. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

24.

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.

25.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

26.

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

27.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

28.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

29.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

30.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

31.

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.

32.

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

33.

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

Bible

34.

When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other.

Gaulle, Charles De

35.

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

Mizner, Wilson

36.

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

Mckay, David O.

37.

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

Webster, John

38.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

39.

Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.

Tupper, Martin

40.

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

41.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

42.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

43.

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.

44.

I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they

White, Elwyn Brooks

45.

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

Renard, Jules

46.

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

47.

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

Akhenaton

48.

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

Boyes, John F.

49.

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

50.

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

Dickinson, Emily