Motivational Quotes

Anger

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

- Corneille, Pierre

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

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.

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

Akhenaton

It is better to do thine own duty, however lacking in merit, than to do that of another, even though efficiently. It is better to die doing one's own duty, for to do the duty of another is fraught with danger.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

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

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

Thurber, James

10.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

11.

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

Dickinson, Emily

12.

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

Russell, Bertrand

13.

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

Quarles, Francis

14.

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

Epictetus

15.

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

Bible

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.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

18.

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

Sarnoff, David

19.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

20.

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

Bible

21.

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

Clarendon

22.

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

Seneca

23.

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

24.

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

Webster, John

25.

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

26.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

30.

Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.

Beecher, Henry Ward

31.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

32.

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

Joubert, Joseph

33.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

34.

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

35.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

36.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

37.

I used to store my anger and it affected my play. Now I get it out. I'm never rude to my playing partner. I'm very focused on the ball. Then it's over.

Alfredsson, Helen

38.

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

39.

I lose my temper, but it's all over in a minute, said the student. So is the hydrogen bomb, I replied. But think of the damage it produces!

Sweeting, George

40.

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

Secker, Thomas

41.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace