Motivational Quotes

Anger

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

- Corneille, Pierre

Best Quotes about Anger

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

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.

I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

Barton, Clara

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Joubert, Joseph

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.

There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.

Dyer, Wayne

10.

A soft answer truth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger. [Proverbs 15:1]

Bible

11.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

12.

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

13.

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

Buddha

14.

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

15.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

16.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

17.

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

Laurence J. Peter

18.

The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong.

Mizner, Wilson

19.

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

Quarles, Francis

20.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

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

Bible

22.

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

Emily Dickinson

23.

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

24.

Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.

Hull, Bobby

25.

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

26.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Webster, John

30.

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

Thurber, James

31.

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

32.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

33.

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

34.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

35.

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

Shakespeare, William

36.

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

Lucan, F. L.

37.

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

Mario Puzo

38.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

39.

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

40.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

41.

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

Akhenaton

42.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

43.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

44.

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

Proverb

45.

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

Secker, Thomas

46.

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

Bible

47.

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

48.

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

49.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

50.

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

Shaw, George Bernard