Motivational Quotes

Anger

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

2.

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

Angelou, Maya

3.

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

Fuller, Thomas

4.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

5.

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

6.

The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.

George, David Lloyd

7.

The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances boldly to meet them head on. The weak man grows agitated. But the superior man stands up to fate, endures resolutely in his inner certainty If ignorant both

I Ching

8.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

9.

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

Bacon, Francis

10.

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

Bible

11.

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

12.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

13.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

14.

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

Bible

15.

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

16.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

17.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

18.

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

Secker, Thomas

19.

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

Seneca

20.

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.

21.

Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid at the back of reason, to come to the front when bidden. For once it begins to take control of the mind, it calls just what it does cruelly.

Curtis, George William

22.

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

Shakespeare, William

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.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

25.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

26.

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

Shakespeare, William

27.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

28.

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

29.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

30.

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

31.

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

Ellis, Havelock

32.

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

33.

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

Proverb, Malabar

34.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

35.

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

Akhenaton

36.

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

Joubert, Joseph

37.

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

Sarnoff, David

38.

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

39.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

40.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

41.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

42.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.