Motivational Quotes

Anger

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

- Corneille, Pierre

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

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

2.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

3.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

4.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

5.

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

6.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

7.

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

8.

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

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9.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

10.

Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

11.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

12.

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

13.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

14.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

15.

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.

16.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

17.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

18.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

19.

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

Greg Evans

20.

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

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21.

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

Thurber, James

22.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

23.

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

Greer, Germaine

24.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

25.

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

26.

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

27.

Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.

Babylonian Talmud

28.

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

Gracian, Baltasar

29.

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

30.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

31.

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

32.

Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

Halifax, Edward F.

33.

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

Syrus, Publilius

34.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

35.

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

Akhenaton

36.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

37.

Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.

Fuller, Thomas

38.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

39.

Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much; such men are dangerous. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

40.

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

Russell, Bertrand

41.

He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.

Proverb

42.

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

Mckay, David O.

43.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

44.

The best answer to anger is silence.

45.

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

Epictetus

46.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

47.

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

48.

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

Webster, John

49.

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

50.

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

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