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

1.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

2.

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

3.

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

Plato

4.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

5.

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

Buddha

6.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

7.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Quarles, Francis

8.

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

Epictetus

9.

The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them. [Proverbs 12:6]

Bible

10.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

11.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

12.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

13.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

14.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

15.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

16.

The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

17.

Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.

Greg Evans

18.

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

Bible

19.

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

20.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

21.

Stay out of the road, if you want to grow old.

Floyd, Pink

22.

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.

Cherie Carter-Scott

23.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

24.

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

25.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

28.

It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.

Riley, James Whitcomb

29.

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

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

Akhenaton

31.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

32.

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

33.

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

Edwards, Tryon

34.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

35.

Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

36.

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

Ruskin, John

37.

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

Fuller, Thomas

38.

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

Sarnoff, David

39.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

40.

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

Pope, Alexander

41.

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

Greer, Germaine

42.

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.

43.

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

44.

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

Baldwin, James

45.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

46.

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

Joan Lunden

47.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

48.

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

49.

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

Shaw, George Bernard

50.

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