Motivational Quotes

Anger

However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

- Ellis, Havelock

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Sarnoff, David

However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

Ellis, Havelock

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

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

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

Syrus, Publilius

The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.

Ruskin, John

10.

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

11.

When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other.

Gaulle, Charles De

12.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

13.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

14.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

15.

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

Greg Evans

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.

Anger makes dull men witty -- but it keeps them poor.

Bacon, Francis

18.

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

19.

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

Angelou, Maya

20.

To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.

Watts, Alan W.

21.

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

Buddha

22.

To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.

Edwards, Tryon

23.

Sticks and stones may break your bones when there's anger to impart. Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart. Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

24.

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

Shakespeare, William

25.

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.

Fuller, Thomas

26.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

27.

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

Hugo, Victor

28.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

29.

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

Shenstone, William

30.

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

31.

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

Lucan, F. L.

32.

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

Dyer, Wayne

33.

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

34.

Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

Proverb, Malabar

35.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

36.

It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and angry woman. [Proverbs 21:19]

Bible

37.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

38.

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

39.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

40.

As the whirlwind in its fury teareth up trees, and deformeth the face of nature, or as an earthquake in its convulsions overturneth whole cities; so the rage of an angry man throweth mischief around him.

Akhenaton

41.

Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

42.

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

Webster, John

43.

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

44.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

45.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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