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

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

The best answer to anger is silence.

Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Bible

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

Horace

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

11.

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

12.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

13.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

14.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

15.

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

Greer, Germaine

16.

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

Hugo, Victor

17.

The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression. [Proverbs 19:11]

Bible

18.

A wave of anger washed over me, anger against myself, at my age at the time, that stupid lyrically age, when a man is too great a riddle to himself to be interested in the riddles outside himself and when other people are mere walking mirrors in which he is amazed to find his own emotions, his own worth.

Kundera, Milan

19.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

20.

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

21.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

22.

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.

23.

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.

24.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

25.

The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.

Long, Haniel

26.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

27.

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

Bible

28.

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

Shakespeare, William

29.

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

Edwards, Tryon

30.

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

31.

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

Joubert, Joseph

32.

Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

Quarles, Francis

33.

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

34.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

35.

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

36.

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

Akhenaton

37.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

38.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

39.

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

Churchill, Winston

40.

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

41.

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

Renard, Jules

42.

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

43.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

44.

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

Shenstone, William

45.

Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.

Wallenda, Karl

46.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

47.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

48.

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

Boyes, John F.

49.

We are confronted by a first danger, the destructiveness of applied atomic energy. And then we are confronted by a second danger, that we do not enough appreciate the first danger.

Swing, Raymond G.

50.

The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life.

Maxim, Samurai