Motivational Quotes

Anger

The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Anger

The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Shakespeare, William

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

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Dyer, Wayne

10.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

11.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.

Buddha

12.

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

Akhenaton

13.

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

Bacon, Francis

14.

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

Horace

15.

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

Hull, Bobby

16.

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

Dyer, Wayne

17.

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

18.

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

Quincey, Thomas De

19.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

20.

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

Joubert, Joseph

21.

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

Proverb

22.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

23.

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

Shakespeare, William

24.

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

Russell, Bertrand

25.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

26.

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

27.

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

Shenstone, William

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.

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

30.

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

Sarnoff, David

31.

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

Ruskin, John

32.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

33.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

34.

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

Baldwin, James

35.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

36.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

37.

The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.

Freud, Sigmund

38.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

39.

Stay out of the road, if you want to grow old.

Floyd, Pink

40.

Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.

Greer, Germaine

41.

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

Angelou, Maya

42.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

43.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

44.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

45.

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.

46.

Danger -- if you meet it promptly and without flinching -- you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Churchill, Winston

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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

48.

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

Epictetus

49.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Dickinson, Emily