Motivational Quotes

Anger

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

- Corneille, Pierre

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

2.

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

Syrus, Publilius

3.

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

Proverb

4.

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

Proverb

5.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

6.

Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.

Henry Ward Beecher

7.

Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

Seneca

8.

Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.

Baldwin, James

9.

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

Laurence J. Peter

10.

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

11.

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.

12.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

13.

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

Joubert, Joseph

14.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

18.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

19.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

20.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

21.

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.

22.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

23.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

24.

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

Emily Dickinson

25.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

26.

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

27.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

28.

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

Dyer, Wayne

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

33.

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

Mario Puzo

34.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

35.

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

Bible

36.

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.

37.

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

38.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

39.

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

40.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

41.

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

Lucan, F. L.

42.

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

Colton, Charles Caleb

43.

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

44.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

45.

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

Shakespeare, William

46.

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

Maxim, Samurai

47.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

48.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

49.

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

50.

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