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

To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.

Watts, Alan W.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

In time of danger it is proper to be alarmed until danger be near at hand; but when we perceive that danger is near, we should oppose it as if we were not afraid.

Hitopadesa

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

Epictetus

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

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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

10.

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

Hugo, Victor

11.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

12.

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

Laurence J. Peter

13.

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

Emily Dickinson

14.

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

15.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

16.

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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Seneca

19.

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

20.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

21.

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

Mario Puzo

22.

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

Lucan, F. L.

23.

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

Webster, John

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When you meet up with a disagreeable person, never allow yourself to be upset. Say to yourself,if a dowdy like that can stand himself all his life, surely I can stand him for a few minutes.

25.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

26.

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.

27.

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

Syrus, Publilius

28.

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

George, David Lloyd

29.

Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

30.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

31.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

32.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

34.

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

35.

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.

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I used to store my anger and it affected my play. Now I get it out. I'm never rude to my playing partner. I'm very focused on the ball. Then it's over.

Alfredsson, Helen

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

40.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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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

42.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

43.

I lose my temper, but it's all over in a minute, said the student. So is the hydrogen bomb, I replied. But think of the damage it produces!

Sweeting, George

44.

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

Freud, Sigmund

45.

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

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

Ruskin, John

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

Bible

48.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

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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

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Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.

Fuller, Thomas