Motivational Quotes

Anger

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

- Corneille, Pierre

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

The broad general rule is that a man is about as big as the things that make him angry.

2.

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

Quarles, Francis

3.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

4.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

5.

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

Sarnoff, David

6.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

7.

Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south.

Shakespeare, William

8.

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.

9.

Danger -- if you meet it promptly and without flinching -- you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Churchill, Winston

10.

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

Angelou, Maya

11.

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

Hugo, Victor

12.

When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out -- because that's what's inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside.

Dyer, Wayne

13.

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

Freud, Sigmund

14.

Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.

Buddha

15.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

16.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

17.

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

18.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

19.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

20.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

21.

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

22.

Doomed are the hotheads! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, I'm sorry.

Schuller, Robert H.

23.

The best answer to anger is silence.

24.

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

Wallenda, Karl

25.

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

Renard, Jules

26.

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

Greer, Germaine

27.

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

Fuller, Thomas

28.

Anger is one letter short of danger, Greatest remedy for anger is delay

29.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

30.

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

Joubert, Joseph

31.

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

32.

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

Mario Puzo

33.

I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

Colby, Frank Moore

34.

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

Akhenaton

35.

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

Fuller, Thomas

36.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

37.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

38.

The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

Landor, Walter Savage

39.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Malcolm X

40.

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

41.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

42.

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

Maxim, Samurai

43.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

44.

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

Epictetus

45.

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.

46.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

47.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

48.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Proverb

49.

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